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Does your 10-year-old want a perfect body?

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By CafeMom, on Fri Oct 2, 2009 4:26pm PDT

We know that dissatisfaction with body image and eating disorders are serious issues when it comes to our kids. But how early should we be looking for the warning signs?
According to Time, new research suggests that children as young as 10- and…
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Naked: Athletic should be the new black

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By Anne Fitzgerald, Elastic Waist, on Wed Jul 9, 2008 10:01am PDT

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We're built, as humans, to choose an ideal--this is the ideal job, this is the ideal partner, this is the ideal car and house and life, and this is what we need to aspire to. Ideals make me tired. They so often are an unattainable extreme, raising the bar to such an impossible height that ordinary human beings--perfectly wonderful, perfectly average people--end up breaking their necks when they try to scale those heights. Average is a bad word, and perfection is something that is not just nice to achieve, but something to which we are supposed to dedicate ourselves. Read More »

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