All Shapes and Sizes: Parenting Your Overweight Child (Today's Parent Book) [Paperback]

Teresa Pitman (Author), Miriam Kaufman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins Canada (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0006380204
• ISBN-13: 978-0006380207
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,561,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Teresa Pitman has been writing about birth, breastfeeding and parenting for more than 25 years. She co-writes the popular "Steps and Stages" columns in Today's Parent, Canada's national parenting magazine, and has also written for many other magazines, including Mothering, Family Fun, Chatelaine, and More. She also has 14 published books. As a long-time La Leche League Leader, she was thrilled to be asked to co-write the 8th Edition of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (published in 2010).

Teresa has been invited to speak at conferences across Canada and the US and as far away as New Zealand. She's the mother of four grown children and the grandmother of four and lives in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and emotional, more "feel" than "food", July 25, 2000

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This review is from: All Shapes and Sizes: Parenting Your Overweight Child (Today's Parent Book) (Paperback)

Good book, very valuable when trying to emotionally support a child with a weight problem. The book includes tips on getting the family involved in healthy activities, how to allow your child to express their feelings without criticism, and how to overcome obstacles in the classroom, organized sports, and with friends - and how labelling a child can be harmful - overweight is a condition your child may have, but not necessarily "is". There wasn't a lot of helpful dietary information, and I feel there was a little apathy on part of the authors, an attitude of acceptance of overweight as long as the child doesn't feel that they are being treated poorly by peers. Almost as though it's OK to be fat, if your child has "nice" friends. Regardless, I still would have bought this book because it did offer practical & sensitive thoughts on connecting with your overweight child, but do consider additional sources for dietary information.