Purging

Well Leah informed me today that you can make yourself throw up by putting your finger in the back of your mouth and some girls will do it 5 or 6 times a day to be skinny. A little disturbed by her knowledge I asked her where she had heard it. My teacher told me about it and said that if any one in the class is doing it they should stop and there are other ways to get skinny.

She is nine, she is in third grade, and she is not conscious of her body yet let alone weight gain. I am disturbed that her teacher is planting these seeds of self image and purging into her classroom of 8/9 year old girls. I understand that they are learning body parts yet find it troubling that her teacher would focus on, of all the million and one details of how our bodies function, on the negative affects of purging. Come on teacher of all the wonderful and insightful things Leah has come home and shared with me this one really sent me into an outrage.