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Body positive book for toddlers!

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WomanBornNotWorn · 26/11/2019 12:19

Great idea - helping small children

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Body positive book for toddlers!
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LiterallyProblematic · 26/11/2019 15:29

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

CherryValance · 26/11/2019 15:25

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.

StillWeRise · 26/11/2019 14:59

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

LangCleg · 26/11/2019 12:41

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.

BeardedVulture · 26/11/2019 12:38

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.

thefluffysideofgrey · 26/11/2019 12:36

Ah right, it's the trans thing.

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

drspouse · 26/11/2019 12:36

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".

ScrimshawTheSecond · 26/11/2019 12:32

Brilliant. Will order.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 26/11/2019 12:30

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)

thefluffysideofgrey · 26/11/2019 12:26

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

WomanBornNotWorn · 26/11/2019 12:23

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