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What suggestions do you have for parents raising daughters today, when everything is airbrushed and advertised that being perfect is possible,....you see it...it has to be real! and it is believable...right?
ReplyDeletePart of what I am wondering is how to teach loving yourself in just the way you are created when teenagers today are exposed to so much?
That question is a hard one to answer. I think that some of the best things that mothers can do is watching what they say about themselves in front of their children (especially their daughters). All I know is that from my personal experience my Mom was a great example to me. She never complained about her weight, and I NEVER heard her talk negatively about her body. She ate healthy and exercised, but she also ate treats every now and then :) I saw how she treated her body and I patterned my life after her. I'm sure she wasn't always happy with her body but she never showed it. I think that because of that I grew up having a very positive view of my body. I would say don't ever call yourself fat, or skinny, don't joke about it excessively, and ALWAYS talk positive!! I don't have teenagers so I don't know how to suggest you teach them. But from what I have observed with friends and family, teenagers learn more from watching what we say and do than from what we tell them to say and do.
DeleteI agree completely! Thanks for your answer - and thank you for sharing your own experience and example of your mother. I am raising a teenage daughter and I frankly don't know what to do sometimes. I can tell when she is being a bit obsessive about exercise and concerned with her eating habits and it worries me. I don't want to see her struggle with an eating disorder and yet I feel like some of those might be borderline signs. I did come across this article this week and thought it was a really cool example of what a parent did. Titled "This Father just DESTROYED societies definition of beauty. This is perfect."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.viralnova.com/father-letter-to-daughter/
Thanks for the answer to my question. Stacie