Parents receive support from other parents and delight in their child's progress. It gently and effectively supports families in creating an active lifestyle and a healthy but 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 and feels happier and safer. 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, interest, sports and projects. A wide range of strategies help the child and parent take care of their emotional and physical 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.