Author and podcast host Virginia Sole-Smith offers parents strategies for talking to their kids about self-worth, health, and weight without involving fatphobia or fat-shaming.

How do you instill self-worth in young kids, especially when it comes to their bodies and health?

In Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, author Virginia Sole-Smith guides parents as they raise their kids in a fat-shaming society.

Sole-Smith offers strategies that emphasize self-worth and empowerment while helping parents confront their own fatphobia and history with diet culture.

Sole-Smith is a journalist and author who writes about diet culture, anti-fat bias, feminism, and health. Her previous works include The Eating Instinct.