I’m so grateful that in Finland we have ”body peace” (kehorauha) meaning that every body type is accepted and good as it is. It sounds silly, but I’m always so relieved when I come back from a holiday. In the sauna no one cares about cellulitis or sagging breasts 😄🙏🏻❤️
Thanks for this comment! It's so wild that even I am only hearing about "keho rauha" (= body neutral, directly translated to "body peace" for the first time now. It's never discussed in terms of educating kids to have a neutral relationship with their own and others' bodies from a very young age. After your comment, I also realized that what's largely missing in Finland are the looks, the stares, the comments on someone's body. No one just cares! It's just a body!
I’m glad you wrote about this. Here in Australia little kids are at least for now allowed to shower together after swim class (my son is 3). I also let my son run around naked at home (he also says he’s “nakuna” or “nakke”). Have also converted my husband to a true Finn regarding this and he now has saunas in the nude and doesn’t think anything of it. He’s blended in to my Finnish family so well and is totally on board in raising our kid(s) body neutrally too ❤️
Thank you! It's interesting that in Scandinavia, the ability to be "freely naked" as a kid without the bodies being objectified and viewed extremely neutrally as such a privilege, and in many other places it's something very wrong because the mindset of body neutrality doesn't exist. I can see how this attitude ends up effecting how teens and grownups view bodies and ultimately how the whole society objectifies bodies less.
I’m so grateful that in Finland we have ”body peace” (kehorauha) meaning that every body type is accepted and good as it is. It sounds silly, but I’m always so relieved when I come back from a holiday. In the sauna no one cares about cellulitis or sagging breasts 😄🙏🏻❤️
Thanks for this comment! It's so wild that even I am only hearing about "keho rauha" (= body neutral, directly translated to "body peace" for the first time now. It's never discussed in terms of educating kids to have a neutral relationship with their own and others' bodies from a very young age. After your comment, I also realized that what's largely missing in Finland are the looks, the stares, the comments on someone's body. No one just cares! It's just a body!
I’m glad you wrote about this. Here in Australia little kids are at least for now allowed to shower together after swim class (my son is 3). I also let my son run around naked at home (he also says he’s “nakuna” or “nakke”). Have also converted my husband to a true Finn regarding this and he now has saunas in the nude and doesn’t think anything of it. He’s blended in to my Finnish family so well and is totally on board in raising our kid(s) body neutrally too ❤️
Thank you! It's interesting that in Scandinavia, the ability to be "freely naked" as a kid without the bodies being objectified and viewed extremely neutrally as such a privilege, and in many other places it's something very wrong because the mindset of body neutrality doesn't exist. I can see how this attitude ends up effecting how teens and grownups view bodies and ultimately how the whole society objectifies bodies less.
Loved this!
Thank you! I only realized after moving back to Finland for this fall, how massive the difference is, with this regard too!