Embrace Kids is a powerful documentary about children, for children and featuring children from body positivity champion Taryn Brumfitt. Full of child-friendly and often funny messages about being yourself and loving your body, this movie helps children learn how to say no to body-shaming, bullying and stereotypes in the media. Highly recommended.

Story

Taryn Brumfitt, writer, director and founder of the Body Image Movement, takes viewers on a journey of self-acceptance in this documentary aimed at children. Brumfitt is joined by children who share insights into the body image pressures they face and how their lives and choices are shaped by these pressures. She’s also joined by actors, comedians, influencers, sports stars, teachers and speakers, who all share perspectives on the global problems of body shaming, obsession with appearance and bullying, and the feelings of helplessness and unhappiness that these problems create. Through these positive and sometimes hilarious interviews, Brumfitt helps children understand the effects of the media in driving these problems. She also helps children recognise stereotypes and unhealthy habits.

Most importantly, Brumfitt wants children to learn that they have the power to be happy and grateful; to love themselves and their bodies for everything they can do; and to choose where their dreams will take them. She wants children themselves to determine how they feel about their bodies and to remember that their spirits and their hearts define who they are.

Through this documentary, children will learn that they have the power to change the environment around them, by loving and not loathing their bodies and by being themselves.

Themes

Body shaming; bullying because of race, ethnicity, physical appearance, disability and gender; the influence of advertising and influencers in teaching us that we are broken; the business of making people feel unhappy so that we’ll buy more while striving for a standard that we can’t achieve; the negative effects of social media and how it contributes to the general unhappiness of millions of people