Dr Charlotte Markey explains how self-scrutiny over our appearance can start as early as three or four years old and why parents’ messaging is key to combat misinformation online Young children can pick up on body dissatisfaction from their parents In the opening of her new book Adultish , Dr Charlotte Markey – professor of psychology and Chair of the Health Sciences Department at Rutgers University – notes that there is so much she wishes she’d known as a teenager and young adult. “All of our worlds are so small in ways growing up because we didn’t know any better,” Dr Markey notes in a Zoom call from her home in the US..
