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A Young Girl’s World
By Cornelia Powell | January 21, 2008
What can you do today to boost the self-esteem of a young girl? What if you saw every girl as a potential world leader? What then would you say to her to inspire her to see that for herself?
The social pressures of young people today can be brutal—and the support structures of modern culture have let them down. We have given them a society full of caffeine and refined sugar diets; freely prescribed drugs for depression and deficient attention; a media system that makes cruelty and rudeness “cool entertainment”; adult role models who use “religion” to make others wrong; a cyber world that can be more believable to a child than what their parent’s say; and neglect of their inner spirit.
Read the story of Megan Meier. Megan was a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide to escape the pressures she felt from the cruel bullying via her social networking community on MySpace.com.
How can you shore up the self-esteem of not only the “Megan’s” of the world, but also the self-esteem of the girls who tormented her? Let the world know in every way you can that kindness and tenderness are “cool.” Reach out to at least one young girl today—stranger, daughter, friend. They are all our children; they are all us.
Topics: Empowering Girls |