Parents receive support from other parents and delight in their child's progress. It gently and effectivly supports families by creating an active and healthy lifestyle while not depriving diet. Parents tune up their nurturing skills to curb their child's emotional overeating and sharpen their limit setting skills to prompt their child toward a healthier lifestyle. The child accepts more responsibility for diet and activity. Food becomes less important, activity more exciting and the child's weight begins to normalize.
Diets typically cause children to feel deprived and, as a consequence, to overeat.
Children and parents develop a more active lifestyle and replace television viewing and other inactive pursuits with chores, interests, sports, and projects. A wide range of strategies help the child and parent take care of their emotional and physcial health. For example, children learn techniques that effectively stop peer teasing. Parents free themselves from the weightism of our society. Families learn communication techniques to resolve conflicts.