"I proceeded to say, 'I know it's so frustrating when your clothes don't fit. And the most beautiful thing is your body is changing. You are growing, you are getting taller, and for the rest of your life, your body is going to change, because that's what bodies are meant to do,' she recalls, adding, 'We are not meant to be the same size our entire lives.'"
"I just heard her screaming and throwing her pants and crying, Schatzle tells TODAY.com. I took a deep breath, and I calmed myself, and then I walked into her room and had a really beautiful conversation, a conversation I wish I would have had with the adults in my life when I was her age."
"literally going through adult puberty. Some women get acne or have weird food cravings. We're putting on weight in different areas. That's exactly what happens in puberty."
A mother calmed her 8-year-old daughter's meltdown over jeans not fitting by explaining that bodies change as children grow and get taller. She told her daughter that bodies are meant to change and that people are not meant to remain the same size. The mother links childhood growth to puberty and relates perimenopause to an adult form of puberty, noting shared symptoms like acne, cravings, and shifting weight distribution. The family includes 8-year-old twins with different body types, illustrating normal variation. As a gym owner, the mother works to help women love their bodies and shifts childhood body-image messages to support her daughters.
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