{"id":1185,"date":"2020-08-04T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peggymcfarland.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2020-08-04T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T16:40:07","slug":"protect-the-girls-you-love-from-harmful-media-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Protect the Girls You Love from Harmful Media Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/peggymcfarland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Stop-I-dont-want-that-message.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SAY STOP.<\/strong>  Give harmful media &#8220;the hand&#8221; as I show in my video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SPEAK UP.<\/strong>&nbsp; When you see a magazine cover that parades women&#8217;s scantily-clad bodies, SPEAK UP: &#8220;Honey, that&#8217;s not how women should be valued.&#8221; &nbsp;When &nbsp;she is selecting movies, say &#8220;No&#8221; if casual sex is glamorized. Be firm. &#8220;This movie is harmful. Healthy relationships are built upon friendship not casual sex. Casual sex has serious consequences.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>CREATE A NURTURING SPACE. <\/strong>Yes, we live in the &#8220;great and spacious building&#8221; of harmful media messages. You can nurture your daughter&#8217;s mind and heart with literature and music that challenge these harmful messages. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/peggymcfarland.com\/?p=368\" target=\"_blank\">Check out my post on books and role models <\/a>that support our true nature as women. Explore the ways that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/peggymcfarland.com\/?p=1062\" target=\"_blank\">harmful &#8220;perfectionism&#8221; <\/a>has crept into our every day life experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>ARM YOURSELF<\/strong>.&nbsp; You and the girls you love need to recognize media strategies like &#8220;objectification,&#8221; &#8220;dismemberment,&#8221; &#8220;unrealistic perfection,&#8221; &#8220;sexualization,&#8221; and &#8220;social isolation.&#8221;&nbsp; <em>Healthy Transitions for Girls <\/em>will help you and the girls you love to be &#8220;media detectives.&#8221; Our girls want to understand the &#8220;Why&#8217;s?&#8221; of what we teach them. <em>Healthy Transitions for Girls<\/em> explains the science behind values like modesty and chastity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Healthy Transitions for Girls<\/em>,&nbsp; the &#8220;ESSENTIAL Prevention Tool,&#8221; is a strength-based&nbsp; curriculum (294 page activity book and 72 page workbook) to promote POSITIVE BODY IMAGE in girls ages 8 to 14. This&nbsp; resource can help you and the girls you love to become &#8220;media detectives.&#8221; Learn how you can get the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Healthy-Transitions-Girls-Strength-Based-Professionals\/dp\/0615727557\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1433865478&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=healthy+transitions+for+girls\"> Healthy Transitions for Girls Workbook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAY STOP. Give harmful media &#8220;the hand&#8221; as I show in my video. SPEAK UP.&nbsp; When you see a magazine cover that parades women&#8217;s scantily-clad bodies, SPEAK UP: &#8220;Honey, that&#8217;s not how women should be valued.&#8221; &nbsp;When &nbsp;she is selecting movies, say &#8220;No&#8221; if casual&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/?p=1185\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[12,52],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationship","category-navigating-media","tag-body-image","tag-media-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkonwatercoaching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}