Body positive book for toddlers!

[WomanBornNotWorn]

Great idea - helping small children

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[WomanBornNotWorn]

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[WomanBornNotWorn]

And I love the puuuuullll pic at the top of @RooneyRachel's Twitter
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[thefluffysideofgrey]

Why would a toddler need to be 'body positive'?

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

I saw that too it looks like a really good book!

It's not about body positive in an adult sense, it like there are boy bodies and girl bodies and they are both great and can mostly do the same sort of thing (wear trousers, play with dolls etc)

[ScrimshawTheSecond]

Brilliant. Will order.

[drspouse]

The author says more 3-6, and certainly at the top end of that range children are saying "I'm fat" and all of that range they are saying "that's for girls, you can't do that".

[thefluffysideofgrey]

Ah right, it's the trans thing.

Of all the things to get a three year old to think about.

[BeardedVulture]

I’ve got mine a book called “I Like Myself” by Karen Beaumont- it’s a rhyming book with lots of funny pictures. I got it for my DD when she was 3 or 4 and she really enjoyed it. Now she’s a bit too old for it but I’m reading it with DS.

thefluffysideofgrey maybe “body positive” isn’t the right word but I think it’s never too early to teach kids to be comfortable in their own skin, no matter how they look I’m a volunteer with the Brownies and I have overheard girls as young as 7 worry that they’re fat. It’s really sad.

[LangCleg]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3753265-wonderful-new-early-years-book

Other thread. As I said there - will be buying and donating to my local pre-school and library.

[StillWeRise]

wonderful that they have got a well known and loved illustrator (sorry not familiar with the author) to do this- often these worthy intentioned books fail because the quality just isn't great but this looks lovely

[CherryValance]

Rachel Rooney is a CLIPPA award-winning children's poet and ex-SEN teacher; she may be GC but the book is generally inclusive, with disability representation etc. It certainly won't be making three year olds think 'about the trans thing' in any nasty way.

[LiterallyProblematic]

@thefluffysideofgrey it's very much trying to get 3 year olds NOT to think about them trans thing'!

[Uncompromisingwoman]

The whole point of this book is that it is not about trans issues. It's aimed at children being positive about their bodies - not told that they are somehow faulty or wrong and need to be fixed. It's outrageous that we need books like this but given some of the awful gaslighting materials that are pushed at even the youngest children at the moment, it's so important that there are books that centre children in who they are and not who adults would like them to be.

[thefluffysideofgrey]

Bollocks is it.

'Some people like blue things, some people like pink things' or words to that affect (in the book).

[Velveteenfruitbowl]

I don’t think it’s appropriate to draw a child’s attention to body issues. Young children are so wonderfully carefree, why introduce the idea of liking (and by implication not liking) your body?

[drspouse]

Because the whole world will introduce the idea of not liking it (hence the 6 year olds thinking they are fat, and thinking they are the opposite sex) so we as parents need to tell them it's lovely.

My DD is BAME and we have carefully told her that her brown skin is lovely and she now is confident this is true. As most of the people she sees around her don't look like her, this needs explicitly saying. In particular she doesn't look like most of the characters in her books, on TV etc. (though Cbeebies does a really good job).

[ScrimshawTheSecond]

A child's attention is drawn to body issues from about as soon as they start interacting with the world. If they watch TV, films, read books, play with dolls, they will already have been absorbing messages - some subtle, some less so, about how their body 'should' look, be and how they should act. They're also acutely aware of what we sometimes call 'gender' and sometimes call sex stereotypes.

I think this book looks wonderful.

[LangCleg]

Bollocks is it.

Oh, give over.

It's a body positive book for young children. It refrains from grooming them and inducing dysphoria in vulnerable ones. Your objection to this is noted.

[WomanBornNotWorn]

Rachel Rooney is receiving some vile trolling for the book #MyBodyIsMe by @RooneyRachel and Jessica Ahlberg, published by Transgender Trend @Transgendertrd

Though I wasn't able to be a mum, I'm buying one.

mobile.twitter.com/RooneyRachel

[iguanadonna]

It looks like the author has had to protect her Twitter account.

[ScrimshawTheSecond]

Sigh.

For writing a warm, positive, utterly non-controversial book.

For suggesting that kids can be happy in their bodies, whatever their bodies are like.

For daring to write a book that doesn't push the blue=boys, pink=girls?

I got mine the other day. It's lovely.

Twitter is just twitter - it's a hellhole, and meaningless piffle, in the greater scheme of things.

[Hearhoovesthinkzebras]

If it's got nothing to do with the trans issue why is it published by transgender trend?

[FemaleAndLearning]

Mine arrived today. I bought it to support Transgender Trend and they sent me some pamphlets too.
One of the pages says "You're born in your body. You don't have a spare. So love it. Hug it. Treat it with care."
Lovely.

[drspouse]

hearhooves you know perfectly well what the answer to that is.

[Hearhoovesthinkzebras]

Well no I don't.

Given that it's published by transgender trend I would think that it does have something to do with the trans issue but other posters have said that it doesn't, hence my question.