Teaching Body Positivity
Resources for Teaching Body Positivity:
For young women: Reinforcing Strong Body Image
For young children: Put the Idea in Early
For young men: Boys Need to Feel Confident too
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Body image correlates strongly between mental and physical well-being
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Comfort with ones' image increases self-confidence which increases grades, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence
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Students can face mental blockades such as not feeling good enough, fear of being made fun of, and failing at something new
Body Image Plays a Role in Physical Education
How Can We Help?
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Find ways to break down those mental blockades, example create a game that no one has ever played before
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Make sure students know that everyone is valued and everyone brings something into the classroom that we can learn from
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Enforce a positive lookout on all body types, no one type is better than the other
As time goes on we see our society that is facing an epidemic of childhood obesity. However, this fact does not mean that we should put those children to shame; instead, we need to encourage a healthy lifestyle and teach them to learn to love the body that they are in, but they could always strive to love it more. This is where an idea called growth mindset come into play; we want our children to be able to continue to reach for something even once they feel that they have achieved their goals. Growth mindset is a theory that installs the idea that there never really is one end goal, but that there is always something more to reach for.
Every Body is Beautiful
