Bring your questions. Bring yourself. Adults-only conversations about creating healthy relationships with food, body and family. With a pediatrician specializing in eating disorder prevention. Register today: www.wendyschofermd.com/freeclass While Wendy Schofer, MD, discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your physician. The Family in Focus®…
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Eating disorder prevention does not start with food, weight, or even exercise. It starts with us, adult adults. Check those biases and stigmas, all the messages that you grew up with in this fat phobic, body – hating culture. What we thought is health centered is actually riddled with stigma,…
Worried about your children's weight and nutrition? Dr. Wendy Schofer, MD, discusses the how focusing on weight can backfire when trying to help children develop healthy relationships with their bodies. Learn how to create healthy eating habits. Get some helpful parenting tips for feeding kids and building a positive family…
Is your child's BMI over the 99th percentile? How do you help? Take a listen. www.WendySchoferMD.com While Wendy Schofer, MD, discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your physician. The Family in Focus® programs and products of Coach Wendy, MD LLC are not intended…
"You should be taller." Been waiting for that dial to be turned my whole life. Still waiting. Yet somehow we think that weight can just be changed - restriction; meds, diets, wishful willful thinking?! We can't dial in our kids' height or heart rate - why do we think it's…
And they totally work for us too! Sleep Nutrition Boredom Kids Focus Attention Eating habits Weight if you're focusing on them all individually, you're setting yourself up to struggle. raising healthy families is like building a skyscraper. It is messy, and you need a solid foundation. Go back to the…
Friend, sleep comes first. Say it with me, "Sleep. comes. first." Again! Louder. we cannot work harder on changing our nutrition and our movement while overlooking the fact that we are stressed, cortisol is sky high, and we do not have the rest that we need to function. Learn more:…
Are we teaching our kids that health comes in a shot? Dr. Wendy Schofer, MD — a pediatrician specializing in eating-disorder prevention and healthy relationships with food, body, and family — shines a light on the alarming rise of cosmetic GLP-1 use and why our “quick-fix culture” is setting the…
BOREDOM. Kids know it and complain about it nonstop. Boredom is the end of the world for children, at least according to them. Here's the Harvard Business Review article by Dr. Arthur C. Brooks discussed in the video: https://hbr.org/2025/08/you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why Hear why this is actually not the case. How boredom is…
When kids hide or sneak around, most parents react with more control—and it backfires. In this short video, Dr. Wendy Schofer, pediatrician and emotional health expert, explains why secrecy isn’t the enemy and how being your child’s ally builds trust, honesty, and healthy relationships with food, body, and family. Transcript:…
We're taking Family in Focus® back!!!! Inclusive of weight, of life experience, of origin, of religion, of perspectives, of identity. Simply check the hatred (of bodies, of differences and of ideologies) at the door. Welcoming open discussion. No debate. Simply curiosity. Imagine that. #familyinfocus #inclusiveeducation #socialemotionalskills #rebel #pediatrician
How do you help your child without harm when doctors, family members, neighbors and educators are telling you that your child has to lose weight? Here are the first three steps, which are critical for parents to do before you make any changes in your home. Needed conversations about growth…
Raising our kids to have healthy relationships is not about control controlling, restriction, or letting them do whatever they damn well please.  It's not about avoiding larger bodies, or even about avoiding eating disorders. It's about letting them develop their own relationships through trial, error, messing up, practice, and…
Want to prevent eating disorders? Don’t start with food. Start with relationships. It’s World Mental Health Day — and this matters. We’ve been told eating disorders are about food or weight. But really, they’re about disconnection — from ourselves, from our bodies, and from each other. So prevention isn’t about…
Monica wanted to share her experience with Family in Focus and how it impacted her family. Learn about her military family, husband in the Marines, complete with overexercise and restricted eating, and how her son followed in her husband's footsteps. Learn how Monica spotted patterns of concern in her son's…
Control and management does not foster healthy relationships. HARD FREAKING STOP. This is what we are missing in our struggles with weight, eating habits, and yes, disordered eating of all varieties. Have you noticed the way that disordered eating increases the more that there is focus on controlling eating? And,…
You want your kids to develop a healthy relationship with their food, and their body, but our current approach is actually causing the food fights and friction and meltdowns that we have every single day. Controlling what our kids eat, even though it's from the very best of intentions, is…
How to help your child who struggles with weight, eating habits and mental health- without shame or harm. I've learned so much about what DOESN'T work for our families' health in my 20+ years as a pediatrician in the military: shame, restriction, searching for quick fixes and magic bullets (they…
A love note to parents, from a pediatrician. Stress relief Comes with creating little spaces of quiet, of connection, of healing. You have nothing to prove by being busy all the damn time. They can wait. Your nervous system, your health and your family's health all need you to slooooooow…
How do you raise healthy kids right now without all the stress? I owe this spot-on response to the brilliant comedian, @jimmy carr. Prioritize Later. Hey, it is f'ing hard to prioritize later when you are simply trying to survive this moment. Go figure that's why we turn to food,…
Here are two underutilized lifestyle changes for better health - for your whole family. From a double board certified pediatrician and lifestyle physician, Dr Wendy Schofer, MD, founder of Family in Focus. Let's talk about consuming less (stressful content like social media, headlines, doom and gloom news) and resting more.…
Patients need to know who they are working with - so we can build trust, credibility and relationships. No more transactional healthcare. Put it all on the table when you're getting care, not just the symptoms and tests and treatments, but what is the experience this person brings to the…
The missing piece to helping address the mental health crisis in our youth: Adults. Adultier adults. Calm, safe, emotionally regulated adults who have the tools to navigate and relieve their own stress amidst all of the chaos, uncertainty and political BS that the world throws our way. The news cycles…