Information for Parents and Loved Ones
Watching someone you love grapple with an eating disorder is gut-wrenching. It need not be paralyzing as well. Find out what to say and what not to say, and when and how you can step into the situation with strength and compassion.
Should Your Child Diet?
Many parents seek to put a child on a diet, because they fear that the child will become permanently overweight or suffer harm. That scenario is possible, but the diet may not be in the child's best interest when better alternatives are available.
Many parents seek to put a child on a diet, because they fear that the child will become permanently overweight or suffer harm. That scenario is possible, but the diet may not be in the child's best interest when better alternatives are available.
Handling Eating Disorders When Your Teen Goes to College
How do you deal with a son or daughter who has an eating disorder and is off to college? It's hard enough for parents to handle the situation when the teen is at home. But there are ways to ensure that he or she gets help for the eating disorder.
How do you deal with a son or daughter who has an eating disorder and is off to college? It's hard enough for parents to handle the situation when the teen is at home. But there are ways to ensure that he or she gets help for the eating disorder.
Eating Disorders and Parents
Parents never want to learn that their children have eating disorders. It's important to respond well and to have a sense of what will help and what won't. You don't have to feel alone in parenting a child or teen with an eating disorder.
Parents never want to learn that their children have eating disorders. It's important to respond well and to have a sense of what will help and what won't. You don't have to feel alone in parenting a child or teen with an eating disorder.
Stop Hiding Food and Start Encouraging Healthy Kids
Hiding food is a trick some parents use to try to help kids eat better. But hiding food can do significant damage to kids' eating patterns, even setting them up for eating disorders.
Hiding food is a trick some parents use to try to help kids eat better. But hiding food can do significant damage to kids' eating patterns, even setting them up for eating disorders.
Parenting by Example to Fight Eating Disorders
Learn ways to set examples for your children that help to guard against eating disorder development.
Learn ways to set examples for your children that help to guard against eating disorder development.
How Do I Help a Friend or Family Member?
It can be difficult to help a family member or friend with an eating disorder. What we want to do to help can sometimes be harmful. Helping someone with an eating disorder requires patience, persistence, and knowledge of your limitations.
It can be difficult to help a family member or friend with an eating disorder. What we want to do to help can sometimes be harmful. Helping someone with an eating disorder requires patience, persistence, and knowledge of your limitations.
How Do I Teach My Children About Food Choices?
You want to make choices that give your children the food they need and in the right amount. All the while, you're overseeing the development of their relationships with food. How do you ensure that children and food get along, especially as they grow?
You want to make choices that give your children the food they need and in the right amount. All the while, you're overseeing the development of their relationships with food. How do you ensure that children and food get along, especially as they grow?
Family Dynamics of Those With Eating Disorders
How does your family contribute, or help to prevent, an eating disorder?
How does your family contribute, or help to prevent, an eating disorder?
A Note on Misleading Web Sites
With so much information available on eating disorders, sites that actually promote unhealthy eating behaviors create much confusion for your kids. Find out why these sites seem so attractive.
With so much information available on eating disorders, sites that actually promote unhealthy eating behaviors create much confusion for your kids. Find out why these sites seem so attractive.
What is it Like to Be an Eating Disorder Caregiver?
Those with eating disorders need help, and family and friends often step in to be eating disorder caregivers. The impact on these persons can be life-changing.
Those with eating disorders need help, and family and friends often step in to be eating disorder caregivers. The impact on these persons can be life-changing.
How Eating Disorders Hurt Caregivers' Relationships
It is easy to become isolated when you are a caregiver for a person with an eating disorder. It strains the caregiver's relationship with family and friends, as well as the relationship with the person who has the eating disorder.
It is easy to become isolated when you are a caregiver for a person with an eating disorder. It strains the caregiver's relationship with family and friends, as well as the relationship with the person who has the eating disorder.
Eating Disorders and Caregivers
When you're helping care for for someone with an eating disorder, you may find that the symptoms can affect your relationship with the person.
When you're helping care for for someone with an eating disorder, you may find that the symptoms can affect your relationship with the person.
How Eating Disorders Affect a Family's Meals,Time, and Money
When a child or loved one has an eating disorder, you may feel as though you're losing control of everything--mealtime, social time, finances, and more. It's key to maintain a voice where you can.
When a child or loved one has an eating disorder, you may feel as though you're losing control of everything--mealtime, social time, finances, and more. It's key to maintain a voice where you can.
Discovering an Eating Disorder in a Loved One
Figuring out that a friend, child, or other family member has an eating disorder is difficult to handle. What you need to know about discovering an eating disorder and confronting the problem.
Figuring out that a friend, child, or other family member has an eating disorder is difficult to handle. What you need to know about discovering an eating disorder and confronting the problem.
The Roles of Parents in Preventing Eating Disorders
Parents play a major part in creating a home environment in which eating disorders can't take hold. Learn what you can do to promote healthy perspectives in your kids.
Parents play a major part in creating a home environment in which eating disorders can't take hold. Learn what you can do to promote healthy perspectives in your kids.
A Website for Kids
Your kids are already on the web as much or more than you are. Why not give them a site that can help them (and you)? Provides help with body-image, self-assessments, and more.
Your kids are already on the web as much or more than you are. Why not give them a site that can help them (and you)? Provides help with body-image, self-assessments, and more.