How do parents get it wrong when it comes to helping their teens struggling with weight and body image? Are parents helping or harming? I’m learning so much coaching teens and parents and learning on TikTok all the ways parents are getting it wrong. But, don’t worry. You are most likely working with good intentions and surely are getting a lot of parenting right. Let’s work together to set our teens on a healthier and more loving and fun path. I promise you can make it fun to get it done! Hey Parents! I know it’s never easy to admit you’ve been doing things wrong. But it’s ok! You are here, which means you love your child and want to help them right? Why not try? I get you. I got you. You’ve got this. I love coaching parents to support your teen’s health independence and I’m ready to get going! First, we have to rip this band-aid off and learn what we are doing that is the opposite of helpful. I’m here with you. Yikes! Let’s go! We do hard things! Tomorrow I’ll show you 25 ways to help you flip the script Click the link in my bio for more information about the IME community —————————- 1. Stay stuck in believing the diet culture lie we grew up with. Reality check: Thin does not mean happy. 2. Give up on your teen and yourself as a parent. 3. Perpetuate weight stigma and bias in their home. 4. Make their teen’s weight mean anything about them as a parent. 5. Focusing on their teen’s weight and not focusing on their teen’s strength. 6. Teach their teens to be self-critical, not process or allow all human emotions, 7. Think there is something going wrong when your teen is at a different stage of change than you are. 8. Make it mean their teen is unmotivated. 9. Don’t focus on their teen’s strengths and nurture their gifts. 10. Fixate on fixing and solving their teen or believe there is something broken. 11. Create shame triggers by getting in your teen’s business and judging the amount of food their teen is eating. This doesn’t allow your teen to create self-trust or intuitive eating. 12. Make it about them as a parent and blame the teen and their weight for how they feel about themselves as a parent. 13. Be your teen’s food police. 14. Create anti-trust eating and the opposite of intuitive eating skills by getting in your teen’s lane when eating. 15. Not recognizing or ignoring the signs of disordered eating and not getting the help they need. 16. Being self-critical and judging of their parenting and shift the blame to the teen. 17. Not taking a holistic approach to their teen’s health. 18. Not listening and having fun with their teen. 19. Believe their teen’s success has anything to do with their weight. 20. Role modeling negative self-talk as the way to motivate instead of self-compassion. 21. Thinking you have to be a role model for perfect eating and fitness. 22. Believing you need to be perfect. 23. Not recognizing when you are triggered to over-function and think you need to fix and solve your teen’s weight. 24. Having scarcity of opportunity mindset to help your teen. 25. Making your teen’s health all about you. Believing your health journey and your teen’s will be the same. Now, get ready to switch things up and I will coach you, Parents, to flip the script! Make sure you Join IME Community! Self-love superpower, Dr. Karla

<p>How do parents get it wrong when it comes to helping their teens struggling with weight and body image? Are parents helping or harming? I&rsquo;m learning so much coaching teens and parents and learning on TikTok all the ways parents are getting it wrong. But, don&rsquo;t worry. You are most likely working with good intentions and surely are getting a lot of parenting right. Let&rsquo;s work together to set our teens on a healthier and more loving and fun path. I promise you can make it fun to get it done! Hey Parents! I know it&rsquo;s never easy to admit you&rsquo;ve been doing things wrong. But it&rsquo;s ok! You are here, which means you love your child and want to help them right? Why not try? I get you. I got you. You&rsquo;ve got this. I love coaching parents to support your teen&rsquo;s health independence and I&rsquo;m ready to get going! First, we have to rip this band-aid off and learn what we are doing that is the opposite of helpful. I&rsquo;m here with you. Yikes! Let&rsquo;s go! We do hard things! Tomorrow I&rsquo;ll show you 25 ways to help you flip the script Click the link in my bio for more information about the IME community &mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;- 1. Stay stuck in believing the diet culture lie we grew up with. Reality check: Thin does not mean happy. 2. Give up on your teen and yourself as a parent. 3. Perpetuate weight stigma and bias in their home. 4. Make their teen&rsquo;s weight mean anything about them as a parent. 5. Focusing on their teen&rsquo;s weight and not focusing on their teen&rsquo;s strength. 6. Teach their teens to be self-critical, not process or allow all human emotions, 7. Think there is something going wrong when your teen is at a different stage of change than you are. 8. Make it mean their teen is unmotivated. 9. Don&rsquo;t focus on their teen&rsquo;s strengths and nurture their gifts. 10. Fixate on fixing and solving their teen or believe there is something broken. 11. Create shame triggers by getting in your teen&rsquo;s business and judging the amount of food their teen is eating. This doesn&rsquo;t allow your teen to create self-trust or intuitive eating. 12. Make it about them as a parent and blame the teen and their weight for how they feel about themselves as a parent. 13. Be your teen&rsquo;s food police. 14. Create anti-trust eating and the opposite of intuitive eating skills by getting in your teen&rsquo;s lane when eating. 15. Not recognizing or ignoring the signs of disordered eating and not getting the help they need. 16. Being self-critical and judging of their parenting and shift the blame to the teen. 17. Not taking a holistic approach to their teen&rsquo;s health. 18. Not listening and having fun with their teen. 19. Believe their teen&rsquo;s success has anything to do with their weight. 20. Role modeling negative self-talk as the way to motivate instead of self-compassion. 21. Thinking you have to be a role model for perfect eating and fitness. 22. Believing you need to be perfect. 23. Not recognizing when you are triggered to over-function and think you need to fix and solve your teen&rsquo;s weight. 24. Having scarcity of opportunity mindset to help your teen. 25. Making your teen&rsquo;s health all about you. Believing your health journey and your teen&rsquo;s will be the same. Now, get ready to switch things up and I will coach you, Parents, to flip the script! Make sure you Join IME Community! Self-love superpower, Dr. Karla</p>

Welcome to the IME Community podcast for teens, parents and doctors.  IME Community, powered by Dr.Karla, ActivistMD is where self-love is your superpower to achieve your weight and life goals and make your mark in the world!

<p>Welcome to the IME Community podcast for teens, parents and doctors. &nbsp;IME Community, powered by Dr.Karla, ActivistMD is where self-love is your superpower to achieve your weight and life goals and make your mark in the world!</p>

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