Protect the Girls You Love from Harmful Media Messages

SAY STOP. Give harmful media “the hand” as I show in my video.

SPEAK UP.  When you see a magazine cover that parades women’s scantily-clad bodies, SPEAK UP: “Honey, that’s not how women should be valued.”  When  she is selecting movies, say “No” if casual sex is glamorized. Be firm. “This movie is harmful. Healthy relationships are built upon friendship not casual sex. Casual sex has serious consequences.”

CREATE A NURTURING SPACE. Yes, we live in the “great and spacious building” of harmful media messages. You can nurture your daughter’s mind and heart with literature and music that challenge these harmful messages. Check out my post on books and role models that support our true nature as women. Explore the ways that harmful “perfectionism” has crept into our every day life experience.

ARM YOURSELF.  You and the girls you love need to recognize media strategies like “objectification,” “dismemberment,” “unrealistic perfection,” “sexualization,” and “social isolation.”  Healthy Transitions for Girls will help you and the girls you love to be “media detectives.” Our girls want to understand the “Why’s?” of what we teach them. Healthy Transitions for Girls explains the science behind values like modesty and chastity.

Healthy Transitions for Girls,  the “ESSENTIAL Prevention Tool,” is a strength-based  curriculum (294 page activity book and 72 page workbook) to promote POSITIVE BODY IMAGE in girls ages 8 to 14. This  resource can help you and the girls you love to become “media detectives.” Learn how you can get the Healthy Transitions for Girls Workbook