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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
DOVE Self-Esteem Campaign
DID YOU KNOW:
7 out of 10 girls think they are not good enough!
Along with the DOVE Campaign, my friend Becky and I are setting up workshops for young girls. The workshops will be 3 hours and there will be two sessions. Location and time TBA. Hopefully we can find a local agency to donate space for the workshop. Read a bit about the findings of what our youth told DOVE. We intend to correct these issues, and build strong self-esteem in young ladies one workshop at a time.....
Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National Report on the State of Self-Esteem, commissioned by the Dove® Self-Esteem Fund, reveals that there is a self-esteem crisis in this country that pervades every aspect of a girl’s life including her looks, performance in school and relationships with friends and family members
62% of all girls feel insecure or not sure of themselves
57% of all girls have a mother who criticizes her own looks
More than half (57%) of all girls say they don’t always tell their parents certain things about them because they don’t want them to think badly of them
The top wish among all girls is for their parents to communicate better with them, which includes more frequent and open conversations about what is happening in their own lives
Reality vs. Perception: Low self-esteem significantly impacts girls’ overall feelings about their own beauty
71% of girls with low self-esteem feel their appearance does not measure up, including not feeling pretty enough, thin enough or stylish or trendy enough (compared to 29% of girls with high self-esteem)
78% of girls with low self-esteem admit that it is hard to feel good in school when you do not feel good about how you look (compared to 54% of girls with high self-esteem)
A girl’s self-esteem is more strongly related to how she views her own body shape and body weight, than how much she actually weighs
Girls with low self-esteem are significantly more likely to engage in negative behaviors
75% of girls with low self-esteem reported engaging in negative activities such as disordered eating, cutting, bullying, smoking, or drinking when feeling badly about themselves (Compared to 25% of girls with high self-esteem)
61% of teen girls with low self-esteem admit to talking badly about themselves (Compared to
15% of girls with high self-esteem)
25% of teen girls with low self-esteem resort to injuring themselves on purpose or cutting when feeling badly about themselves (Compared to 4% of girls with high self-esteem)
25% of teen girls with low self-esteem practice disordered eating, such as starving themselves, refusing to eat, or over-eating and throwing up when feeling badly about themselves (Compared to 7% of girls with high self-esteem)
The self-esteem tipping point: Transition to teenage years results in loss of trust and communication with adults
67% of girls ages 13 – 17 turn to their mother as a resource when feeling badly about themselves compared to 91% of girls ages 8 – 12
Only 27% of girls ages 13 – 17 will turn to their father for help when feeling badly about themselves compared to the 54% of girls ages 8-12. (At 16, girls become more likely to seek support from male peers than from their own dads)
65% of girls ages 13 – 17 refrain from telling their parents certain things about themselves to prevent parents from thinking badly about them, compared to the 49% of girls ages 8 – 12
Parents’ words and actions play a pivotal role fostering positive self-esteem in girls
Girls with low self-esteem are less likely to receive praise from either parent and more likely to receive criticism than girls with high self-esteem
More than one-third (34%) of girls with low self-esteem believe that they are not a good enough daughter (Compared to 9% of girls with high self-esteem)
93% of girls with low self-esteem want their parents to change their behavior towards them in at least one way (Compared to 73% for girls with high self-esteem)
This includes:
Wishing to be understood better (Low: 60%, High: 14%)
Being listened to more (Low: 52%, High: 18%)
My Little Angel
My son and his wife delivered to the world a beautiful baby. She is the most beautiful little girl in the world...ok that's Nana talk, but honest she is very adorable.
Needless to say I am in another world. My focus is to get to their house ASAP every moment I have to visit and cuddle my little angel.
Needless to say I am in another world. My focus is to get to their house ASAP every moment I have to visit and cuddle my little angel.
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