Little Kids, Big Questions: How to Talk to Your Kids About Body Image

Body image is one of the most personal, and loaded topics a parent can face, partly because most of us are still carrying our own baggage. In this episode, Neil and Ali get real about growing up in the 80s and 90s, an era of diet culture, locker room taunts, and clean-your-plate rules rooted in real scarcity, and how those messages quietly shaped the way they feel about their bodies today.

The conversation explores what kids actually hear (from parents, peers, and media) and how even well-meaning comments can plant seeds of shame. Neil and Ali discuss the difference between teaching healthy habits and fostering fear around food, why body positivity is more than a buzzword, and how diet culture has simply shapeshifted from Jenny Craig to Instagram fi ...