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Today’s moms and dads are parenting inside a constant contradiction. We grew up immersed in diet culture, watching our parents shrink themselves, moralize food, and quietly hate their bodies. Now we’re the parents, trying to raise body-confident kids in a world that still obsessively judges, critiques, and profits from insecurity. We still carry our own diet-culture baggage, too.
I know that that uneasy middle space well: I've been the parent who believes in body confidence for their child but still flinches at their own reflection. The mom who wants to raise kids without shame but still hears the old rules about “good” and “bad” bodies in the back of her mind. The family caught between the strictness of diet culture and the pressure of modern body positivity; both telling us, in different ways, that one wrong move could scar our kids for life.
It's time to untangle that tension with compassion, realism, and practical tools that you can use with your kids today.
My One-of-a-Kind Body is Here!
WHITNEY CASARES, MD
CEO AND FOUNDER
Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a practicing board-certified pediatrician, author, and founder of Modern Mommy Doc and Raising Body-Confident Kids. Through her clinical expertise and lived experience as a mom, she helps families raise emotionally and physically healthy kids without falling into the traps of perfectionism or pressure.
Her most recent book, My One-of-a-Kind Body, gives children a science-backed, empowering introduction to how their bodies work and why every body is worthy of care and respect. It's part of her larger mission to help families move beyond shame and unrealistic expectations toward real health, compassion, and confidence.
Dr. Whitney is also the author of Doing It All and The Working Mom Blueprint, and is a nationally recognized voice on pediatric health, maternal well-being, and practical parenting strategies. Her expertise spans the public health, direct patient care, and media worlds. Her work has been featured by outlets like The New York Times, Forbes, and Fortune.
She holds a Masters of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Journalism degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Vermont. She completed her pediatric residency at Stanford University.
Dr. Whitney sees patients from across the United States as a Maven Clinic provider. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two daughters.