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October 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Are you part of the fat-talkin’ club? 7 Tips to Address the Problem with Friends

Are you a member of the Fat-Talkin’ Club?  There are chapters…worldwide. It’s Fat Talk Free Week and, like every year, we are being challenged to drop the fat talk between friends.  This can be a tall order for many.  Why? Because fat-talking has become a habit and a bona fide, integrated component of many friendship [...]

Are you part of the fat-talkin’ club? 7 Tips to Address the Problem with Friends is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, Dr. Robyn Silverman, Fat Talk Free Week, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, Weight Obsession
October 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Are you part of the fat-talkin’ club? 7 Tips to Address the Problem with Friends

Are you a member of the Fat-Talkin’ Club?  There are chapters…worldwide. It’s Fat Talk Free Week and, like every year, we are being challenged to drop the fat talk between friends.  This can be a tall order for many.  Why? Because fat-talking has become a habit and a bona fide, integrated component of many friendship [...]

Are you part of the fat-talkin’ club? 7 Tips to Address the Problem with Friends is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, Dr. Robyn Silverman, Fat Talk Free Week, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, Weight Obsession
October 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Fighting Weight Obsession: Good Girls Don’t Get Fat Revisited

It’s been a year since the launch of Good Girls Don’t Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls & How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It. The book, based on 10 years of my own research, was born out of my dissertation at Tufts University and morphed into over 200 interviews [...]

Fighting Weight Obsession: Good Girls Don’t Get Fat Revisited is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Amy Harman, Audrey Brashich, Body Image, Dr. Robyn Silverman, Dumbification, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, Halloween, Melissa Wardy, Nancy Gruver, SaveGirlHood, Sexualization, Weight Obsession
August 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Compliment Shutdown: Why Can’t a Woman Take a Compliment?

Do you participate in Compliment Shutdown? Lob: “I love your dress!” Shutdown: “Oh, it’s got a hole in the seam and it only cost 12 bucks.  It’s really a piece of garbage.” Lob: “Your hair looks great!” Shutdown: “Gosh I haven’t washed it in days.  It’s such a mess I don’t know what to do [...]

Compliment Shutdown: Why Can’t a Woman Take a Compliment? is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, Character Education, Fat Talk, girls, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, Hoda, Kathie Lee, The Today Show, women
August 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Compliment Shutdown: Why Can’t a Woman Take a Compliment?

Do you participate in Compliment Shutdown? Lob: “I love your dress!” Shutdown: “Oh, it’s got a hole in the seam and it only cost 12 bucks.  It’s really a piece of garbage.” Lob: “Your hair looks great!” Shutdown: “Gosh I haven’t washed it in days.  It’s such a mess I don’t know what to do [...]

Compliment Shutdown: Why Can’t a Woman Take a Compliment? is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, Character Education, Compliments, Fat Talk, girls, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, Hoda, Kathie Lee, The Today Show, women
August 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The War on Obesity: Positive Body Image vs. Health?

After being asked about my view of positive body image “VS” health last week, I’m reissuing a slightly updated part of my article from July of 2010 in response. This conversation has been around for as long as I’ve been working in this field and certainly came into full view when I was writing my [...]

The War on Obesity: Positive Body Image vs. Health? is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, child development specialist, Dr. Robyn Silverman, girls, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, HAES, Health, Jess Weiner, Teens
August 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The War on Obesity: Positive Body Image vs. Health?

After being asked about my view of positive body image “VS” health last week, I’m reissuing a slightly updated part of my article from July of 2010 in response. This conversation has been around for as long as I’ve been working in this field and certainly came into full view when I was writing my [...]

The War on Obesity: Positive Body Image vs. Health? is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, child development specialist, Dr. Robyn Silverman, girls, glamour, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, HAES, Health, Jess Weiner, Teens
August 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Where is the Line Between High Fashion & High Risk? 10 Year Old Vogue Model, Thylane Loubry Blondeau

By now you probably have heard of the controversy over Thylane Loubry Blondeau, a 10 year old model who recently “graced” the pages of Vogue Paris. An absolutely beautiful girl, made up to look much older, to sell clothes to adult women.  Make sense? As a parent of a girl & a child dev specialist, [...]

Where is the Line Between High Fashion & High Risk? 10 Year Old Vogue Model, Thylane Loubry Blondeau is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, Character Education, Dr. Robyn Silverman, girls, GMA, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, model, Parenting Expert, Press, Robin Roberts, Sexualization, Thylane Loubry Blondeau, Vogue
May 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Combating Those Thoughts: The Ones We Wish Went Away When We Decided to Recover from Our Eating Disorders

Do all disordered thoughts end when you decide that you no longer want to succumb to the weight of Eating Disorders?  Rebecca Tishman, our resident teen blogger who has detailed her recovery for over a year now here at DrRobynSilverman.com, admits a hard truth: She still struggles but thankfully, she’s stronger than her eating disorder.  [...]

Combating Those Thoughts: The Ones We Wish Went Away When We Decided to Recover from Our Eating Disorders is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, Dr. Robyn Silverman, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, Guest Blogger, negative thoughts, Rebecca Tishman, Weight, Weight Obsession
February 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Fat Talking Tots: Body Image & Fat Hatred in Preschoolers & Young Children

“The aversion toward chubbiness has been shown to begin at a very young age. According to research conducted in 2009 by the University of Central Florida and reported in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, nearly half of three- to- six year old girls worry about being fat.” — Good Girls Don’t Get Fat: How [...]

Fat Talking Tots: Body Image & Fat Hatred in Preschoolers & Young Children is a post from: Dr. Robyn Silverman – Child Development Specialist, Body Image Expert, Success Coach & the Creator of the Powerful Words Character Development System

Filed Under: Body Image, Dr. Robyn Silverman, Eating Disorders, Fear of Fat, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, NEDAW, Preschoolers
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