This is a phenomenal book. It strikes the perfect balance between both offering thoroughly researched factual information and also providing practical suggestions for parents and caregivers trying to relate to food in a different way with children.

Once you know diets don’t work and can have many detrimental long term effects on children and adults and that you want to divest yourself from the pressure of diet culture, it can feel like you’re adrift on an ice float. You know what NOT to do, but not much about what approach to take given what you’ve learned about bodies and the naturally occurring range of shapes and sizes. Most of the advice out there is based on bad science and punishing people for being fat. Virginia’s book is the perfect companion for divesting ourselves of diet culture and plotting a new course for our children and future generations. I’m working hard to break the generational patterns of following dangerous misinformation that had me put on a diet in middle school, and I’m so grateful to have this as a reference going forward.