Communicating health to children: a pediatrician’s guide for parents
An excerpt from Your Child Is Not Their Weight: Parenting in a Size-Obsessed World, with permission from the American Academy of Pediatrics, 2026.
A friend and colleague who is a doctor in adult medicine made this comment to me several years ago: “My patients with kids have a harder time with their health than those who do not have kids!”
I pointed out to her that the “patients with kids” she …
Communicating health to children: a pediatrician’s guide for parents






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