Body positive book for toddlers!

I may have been born into a broken body but it’s not the wrong one.

I can't think of anything less empowering than telling someone their body is "wrong".

VMisaMarshmallow
Thank you for sharing that.

But my body grew and birthed and fed my daughters, I may hate parts of my body but can celebrate that one. Even when I am frustrated and hurt by the reality of my body I’m still well aware it’s my body, I may have been born into a broken body but it’s not the wrong one.

And I'm pleased that you can find something to be positive about but I can't.

My body is wrong and I can't see a time when I'll ever stop looking for ways to fix it. I simply cannot contemplate the next 40 years living like this and worse.

VMisaMarshmallow

So will you be reducing your meds and having manicures instead? Apparently that's all we women need to do.

That's great to hear Snazzygoldfish .

Hooves I have multiple disabilities as do my children, and I live in constant pain and will for life, along with the medications I need to take and all the side effects. Plus was a victim of csa and all the body blaming ptsd I got from that. But my body grew and birthed and fed my daughters, I may hate parts of my body but can celebrate that one. Even when I am frustrated and hurt by the reality of my body I’m still well aware it’s my body, I may have been born into a broken body but it’s not the wrong one.

This book sounds very much like the let toys be toys campaign. So boys can play dolls and wear pink and paint their nails and make glitter pictures and grow long hair, and that means they are a boy who likes those things. So countering a lot of the social messages that suggest if a boy likes these things they must be a girl born into the wrong body.

Especially since people are saying it's a pretty looking book, so more gift-y than the average.

I haven't read the whole thread so apologies. I bought this book on a whim after reading the thread title. It arrived today and I can honestly say it's the most beautiful book we've got. My four year old loved it. The illustrations are gorgeous and the text is so positive. My little boy related to every picture on every page. The authors and illustrators clearly know and understand young children exceptionally well.

That's lovely!

A food bank would be a lovely idea actually, or maybe a women's homeless shelter or refuge since there will be women there with kids.

If anyone can think of any other options in terms of places to donate to can they leave them here?

Is there a young mothers support group near you? Or a family centre? Many food banks and community drop-ins are currently collecting stocking gifts for the children of their service users.

I haven't read the whole thread so apologies. I bought this book on a whim after reading the thread title. It arrived today and I can honestly say it's the most beautiful book we've got. My four year old loved it. The illustrations are gorgeous and the text is so positive. My little boy related to every picture on every page. The authors and illustrators clearly know and understand young children exceptionally well.

I will read it when I can get a copy in the library.

I looked at transgender trend Twitter feed. Interestingly they are describing it as a body positive book for children designed to address gender and the current issues, so from what I can read they don't seem to be claiming that it's relating to disability or race, that seems to be coming from posters on this thread.

My preschool would love a donation of this book if anyone is offering? We are severely underfunded and I’m making it my mission to replace a lot of our outdated books with more feminist ones.

Why read a book when you can just decide it's evil in principle? Gosh, expecting people to make an effort, how un woke of you.

As this is FWR, isn't it interesting that your study (do you have a link btw) gave manicures to women, the group of people who already struggle to get conditions taken seriously.

Did they offer men manicures in place of analgesia or did they carry on getting the decent pain relief?

Excellent advice to us all from TheProdigalKittensReturn at 17.26.

Yes - I'm going to order several more as a direct result of Clara Vulliamy's bullying. And I'll put money on it she won't have read the book.

Because do you know how difficult it currently is for chronic pain patients to be taken seriously? Do you know how debilitating and disabling it is to live with chronic pain or joint disease so severe that in your 40s, or in my DDS case, early teens, you cannot even walk upstairs?

Drs are reluctant to prescribe pain killers for fear of people becoming addicted, but at the same time won't let people under 60 have joint replacement surgery unless exceptional circumstances. Go to a pain clinic and be advised to pace, use mindfulness. Try pacing at work. That goes down well.

Then along comes "research" like this. Oh have a manicure and reduce your pain med requirements so we don't need to give you opiates anymore. Of course you can go to work with bone on bone disease and no pain meds because you've had a manicure.

It's offensive to people with these diseases. Do you have chronic pain from arthritis?

I said that it’s not a medical treatment, and also said that it reduced symptoms, not cured the disease. But you misinterpret it however makes you feel better :)

. It was believed that the act of loving and caring for the inflicted area helped to deal with the condition and reduce symptoms.

Excellent. I'll cancel my joint replacement surgery and stop taking my immunosuppressant injections and just have manicures instead.

Vaguely on topic- I had a psychology lecture recently about attitudes towards pain. We discussed an interesting study about chronic pain conditions, I think arthritis specifically, in which 50% of the women involved were given regular manicures. Obviously that’s not a medical treatment, but at the end of the study, those who received them reported less pain and were taking fewer medications. It was believed that the act of loving and caring for the inflicted area helped to deal with the condition and reduce symptoms.

Excellent idea!

Then people who don't want to buy the book can read it...

Maybe you can make a request for your library to buy it and get it in. I know someone who has done this before with another book and they did!

I know someone this happened to: they wanted some book about pinnipeds, the library ordered it - bingo!