Raising Healthy Kids in a Body-Obsessed World
There is a whole industry built to make you worry about your kid’s body.
You can raise a healthy kid without handing them that worry. Spend a free, live hour with pediatrician Dr. Wendy Schofer, MD, and find a way to help that does not run on diets, shame, or fighting at the dinner table.
Hosted by Dr. Wendy Schofer, MD · Pediatrician for 22+ years · Eating disorder prevention
The world your kid is growing up in
Kids are being told to shrink, to bulk up, to change how they look.
All so they can fit in, belong, be accepted, be healthy. The messages are conflicting, for kids and parents alike. And they come from everywhere: social media, coaches, relatives, and sometimes even our own mouths.
The cultural messages are thick. And yet, there are real steps you can take to start helping. Without harm.
Help without harm means helping without the control, the restriction, the diets, the shame, and the food fights.
The part almost no one says out loud
Your kid’s body was never the problem.
There is a whole industry that profits when you believe the size of that body is something to fix. The scale, the chart, the worry handed down at the dinner table. Most of us inherited it from our own parents, who inherited it from theirs. A lot of it is someone else’s voice coming out of our mouths.
Body size is a form of human difference. Every kid gets to be cared for, not fixed, not shamed. And you do not have to hand your child the worry you were handed.
“One of the most protective things we can do for our kids is to stop making their body the problem.”
In this free hour
What we will get into together
One live hour. Real questions about food, bodies, and the dinner table. A pediatrician who will not hand you one more thing to optimize.
Why “eat less, move more” backfires
And what actually builds a healthy, lifelong relationship with food, instead of another rule that lasts a month.
Whose voice is doing the worrying
How to hear it when it speaks. Yours, your mother’s, the doctor who weighed you at twelve. And what you get to do with it.
How to stop being the food police
And start leading your family instead, so home becomes a place where health feels easy, joyful, and connected.
This is eating disorder prevention. It is the work I am built for, and it starts with us, the parents.
Hosted by
Hi, I’m Dr. Wendy Schofer, MD.
I am a dual board-certified pediatrician and lifestyle physician, and a mom. After more than 22 years in practice, I frame the work I do as eating disorder prevention.
For years I handed families the same plans I had been trained to hand them. Eat less, move more, try harder. And they kept telling me they were failing. Here is what I came to believe: any time a parent feels like they are failing, we are failing that parent. Those plans were built on diet culture that had crept into our homes and into medical advice itself, trading trust for fear and control.
So I built a different way. It is weight-inclusive, trauma-informed, and made for every age, every size, every brain. Real help, without the harm of diets, shame, or control. I am on a mission to help one million families strengthen their relationships with food, body, and especially each other.
This is the work I am built for. Help without harm.
From parents who started where you are
In their words
I am working through a resurgence of disordered eating with my daughter. Approaching the conversations from the perspective I learned from you has made all the difference in the world. It is powerful, powerful work you are doing.
Mom of 2
I entered this work to help one of my children, and I learned the struggle was actually mine. These were never her insecurities. They were mine. It makes me a better person, mom, and wife all around.
Lindsey, mom of 3
You are not the only one
A generation of parents is changing this conversation.
More and more parents are stepping back from the body talk they grew up with and finding a different way to be in their families. This free hour is where a lot of them start. You are welcome here whether your worry is a kid gaining, a kid losing, your own long history with food, or just a quiet sense that the way you were raised around bodies is not the way you want to raise your own.
Save your seat
Come spend an hour with me.
Bring your real questions about food, bodies, and the dinner table. I will not hand you a diet, a meal plan, or one more thing to optimize. We will walk through it, together.
Register for the Class on Monday, June 8 at 12pm ET
Conversation for education purposes only. Not medical advice.