- How to prevent the sexualization of girls: the recommendations of parents
- How to reduce the harmful effects
- Influence Fashion
- Understanding the Beauty
- How to talk with her daughter
Photoshop - the enemy of understanding the true beauty girl
Even if you do not watch soap operas, such as the series "Desperate Housewives," you've probably seen enough pictures heroines to know that they all have been processed in the program Photoshop (not to mention the "processing", which took place the actress in the clinics of plastic surgery ). Given the abundance of these "enhanced" images on the pages of glossy magazines and websites, is it any wonder that women of all ages have resorted to Botox injections, plastic surgery, and expensive procedures to rejuvenate, to only lose a couple of years?
Sometimes the problem seems insurmountable, because Photoshop wherever one looks. Thus, the American magazine Redbook was heavily criticized for the fact that in 2007 put on the cover of 39-year-old country music star Faith Hill, drastically transforming it into Photoshop: it lengthened the neck, remove the fat from the arms, thighs and waist, remove wrinkles. But Redbook is designed to not glamorous audience. Magazines, consciously or unconsciously, cultivate the belief that a woman should not look his age, because they receive billions of dollars from advertisers, who face ruin if the woman will no longer be ashamed of your age.
How can parents start a conversation on this topic with her daughter and give her a more realistic view of the natural process of aging? How to convince her that "gray hair - a crown of wisdom," when many parents are in a hurry to the hairdresser, to paint the first gray hairs? Few people willing to give up manicure miracle creams, hair dyes, spa treatments, so it is important to find a balance. Ask yourself one question: Are you happy with yourself, your appearance? You put up with the aging process, or hysteria meet every new wrinkle and gray hair?
Parents should make sure that their daughter knows that pictures of models and celebrities they see in the media are not true
. The source of eternal youth is still not found
. In addition, a photo shoot model prepares an army of specialists: stylists, makeup artists, cosmetologists, lighting, photographer, and then further processed images in Photoshop, then the appearance of a model is often changed drastically
. The ideals of the body presented in the media, virtually unattainable, but the girls do not always understand it, and they buy a huge amount of products to achieve such bodies
. It creates a vicious circle of consumerism
. It is necessary to give the girl a positive example, reconciling it with the natural aging process
. This does not mean that we should stop to look after themselves, gather gray hair in a tight bun on top, and change stylish clothes at an old-fashioned things
. There is nothing wrong to strive to look better
How to look better: the secrets of the natural charm
If this is done with taste and is not the main purpose of your life. If your daughter is constantly hears your discontented grumbling and complaints about old age, she has the impression that with age, life becomes less interesting. Cease to be surprised and annoyed, noticing the first signs of aging. Many beautiful women over fifty could outdo some "otfotoshoplennyh" young models and celebrities.
What is beauty?
Did you know that only 2% of women describe themselves as "beautiful"? Treat you to the two percent? And your daughter? After a thorough discussion of erroneous notions of beauty imposed on us by our own parents and the media, we are facing a difficult task - to restate what female beauty
The mystery of female beauty - mystery and femininity
. Just answer this question, we can create our daughters a healthy attitude towards themselves and their appearance.
So, what is beauty? Participants in the campaign Dove answered this question as follows:
- Seventy-seven percent strongly agree that beauty - a combination of intrinsic qualities - strength, determination, kindness - and has nothing to do with looks.
- Eighty-nine percent strongly agree that a woman can be beautiful at any age.
- Eighty-five percent say that every woman has something beautiful.
Interestingly, the study found that two-thirds of women believe that physical attractiveness is dependent on the exterior, while the beauty - a complex concept that includes and internal qualities of the person. Among the components of beauty, along with the more traditional appearance attributes as body weight, proportion and style of dress, the women called optimism, self-confidence, self-esteem and sense of humor.
Stop for a minute and think about this. When you hear the phrase: "This woman is beautiful", whether this refers to internal or external beauty? How sad that popular culture and the media have deprived the word "beauty" of its true value. Outer beauty fades with time, inner beauty and timeless.
Liquidation of consequences
And then it begins the work of parents. It is necessary to constantly point to the girl lies and hypocrisy of modern mass culture and remind them of the true beauty - the only way parents can protect his daughter from imminent brainwashing. It should be reminded that beauty - is not a figure on the scale of weights is not the size of clothing, not the ideal proportions of the hourglass, is not perfectly flat stomach, big and tall chest, slender legs, butt like Jennifer Lopez and her lips like Angelina Jolie. Beauty - it's not tight designer jeans, not the top with a plunging neckline, not a fashionable haircut or clean the face without wrinkles.
If you want to talk on the theme "You - not just a set of traits and properties of appearance" with your daughter is successful, it is necessary first of all to draw attention to himself. This is a difficult task for those of us who have for years been brainwashed media. Unfortunately, few women can answer in the affirmative to the question whether they are satisfied with their appearance.
In a world that beckons girl temptations, calling her to grow quickly, never too early to start talking about true beauty.