It should come as no great surprise that children are developing body image issues at an earlier age when their "role models" are that much younger, or little girls in beauty contests at age 5 (or younger) are made up like 20-somethings and taught to dance provocatively.
Kids are influenced by what adults say, then turn it around on each other. Get inside the heads of the adult influencers and you'll understand where all this madness begins. Kids aren't dolls for parents to live out their fantasy lives vicariously. It's okay to allow a little play acting; but, there's such a thing as allowing it to go to the point at which reality becomes blurred.
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It should come as no great surprise that children are developing body image issues at an earlier age when their "role models" are that much younger, or little girls in beauty contests at age 5 (or younger) are made up like 20-somethings and taught to dance provocatively.
Kids are influenced by what adults say, then turn it around on each other. Get inside the heads of the adult influencers and you'll understand where all this madness begins. Kids aren't dolls for parents to live out their fantasy lives vicariously. It's okay to allow a little play acting; but, there's such a thing as allowing it to go to the point at which reality becomes blurred.
April 1, 2008 - 7:46pmThis Comment
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