Word: self-esteem
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...Still Meet in St. Louis Re TIME's postcard from St. Louis: It's clear the potential loss of Anheuser-Busch would be a huge blow to the city's self-esteem [July 14]. But St. Louis, Missouri, still has a beautiful urban park, a great orchestra, many art venues and an enviable architectural tradition. Dominic Ricciotti, Winona, Minnesota...
...that, as the following stories in this TIME special section show, is at last being joined. Parents are fighting it in the home as they learn how to make healthier meals available to their families, set better examples with their own food choices and manage the critical issues of self-esteem that can be so disabling for overweight kids. Policymakers are fighting it as they study the growing body of research showing how everything from income to race to education plays a role in how much kids weigh and as they craft local solutions to solve these local problems. Doctors...
...soon join in the chorus. All of this can hit a child's still developing ego hard. On the whole, overweight children are more likely than healthy-weight kids to be anxious, unhappy and depressed. The science is mixed on which kids suffer the most. One study finds that self-esteem takes a bigger hit in black kids than in white kids; another sees the problem as being worse for Hispanic children. One study finds significantly higher rates of depression in overweight girls; another finds overweight boys taking a huge self-esteem hit when teased by their peers. No matter...
...addition, any changes made in terms of the kinds of foods served or the time allotted for TV viewing should be made "at the family-wide level," Lowry says. "This will prevent the overweight child from feeling targeted." And new self-esteem standards should be applied to the whole household too. If you're walking around commenting on how fat your butt looks in your new jeans, not only is your daughter going to hear you, but she may also begin making generalizations about how she looks...
Overall, the new study found, regardless of the race of their adoptive parents, black adopted children were no different from other kids in levels of self-esteem. But, the authors write, "black children had a greater sense of racial pride when their parents acknowledged racial identity, moved to integrated neighborhoods, and provided African American role models. Black children whose white parents minimized the importance of racial identity were reluctant to identify themselves racially." But is it necessarily catastrophic to eschew a strong racial identity? Not everybody thinks so. "All adopted children face challenges with being adopted," says R. Richard Banks...