I actually was thinking about making a club with Valerie Dulay at school. What we would do is have girls talk about what keeps them down from feeling good about their bodies, and how media and what types of media effect the way they see themselves.
If that is not possible, I plan to work at my hospital. They have a group of girls that go to patients rooms and give them make overs and talk about what they are good at and show them everything good about them. By doing this, this alows them to think about the good and not worry about the bad.
Explain how you think this will be a worthwhile use of 30 hours?
Talking to different girls and seeing how and what effects them will be useful finding out what is making them feel down about themselves. Whether it's seeing skinny models in the magazine, or having family members pressure them into losing weight. What ever it maybe this will help see all the different flaw that are out there in the world that are making girls feel like this.
How will this help you to answer your EQ?
My essential question is what is the best way to help teenage girls feel confident about their bodies?
By finding out what is hurting girls view of themselves, maybe that will lead me to finding out what it is best for them to do about staying positive. The club and the hospital will let me learn about a variety of self esteem issues I may have never thought about.
Both of these are nice ideas...the hospital one already seems established. The club will mostly be about designing confidence-building activities for young women.
ReplyDeleteIt's really important for you to move from the media (this is a basic answer we all know) to solutions or improvements.