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10,000 people every month google, "I'M I UGLY"?, there is a girl i once met her name is Emma, and unlike any teenage she want to be liked and fit in. now its Sunday night and she is getting ready ahead for the week ahead for school and she is slightly dreading, she is a little bit confused, because despite are mom's who kept telling her, all the time that she's beautiful, every day at school, someone tells her that she's ugly.
Now because of the difference in what are her mom tells her, and what are friends at school or her kids at school are telling her, she doesn't know who to believe, so she take a video of herself, and she post it on YOUTUBE, and she ask people to please leave their comments, "I'M I PRETTY OR I'M I UGLY?". so far Emma as received over 13,000 comments, some of them are so nasty that you just don't get to think about.
This is an average healthy looking teenage girl receiving this feedback. one of the most emotionly vulnerable time in her life... now thousand and thousand of people are posting videos like this online every day like Emma, mostly teenage girls reaching out in this way, now you may ask, "what is leading them to do this?". well, today teenagers are rarely online, they are under pressure to be online and available at all times. talking, messaging, liking, commenting, sharing, posting and it never ends.
Never before have we been so connected, so continuously, so instantaneously, so young and as one mom once told me, it like there is a party in their bed room every night, there is simply no privacy. and the social precious that go along with that are relentless. this always on environment is training our kids to value themselve with some amount of number of likes they get and the type of comments they receive. there is no separation between online and off line life, what's real or what isn't. it is really hard to tell the difference between, and it is also really hard to tell the difference from what is authentic and what is digitally manipulated. i have learnt so far, that in life if you actually want to make a difference you actually have to do something, and we have learnt that they are three key ways:
1. The first is we have to educate for body confidence:
We have to help our teenagers to develop strategies to be able to overcome and build their self esteem. now the good news is that there are many programs available to do this. the bad news is, that most of them don't work. i even think that most of the programs often make the situation worst so we need to make sure that the programs that our kids are receiving are not only having a positive impact but also having a loss impact as well.
2. Be a better role models:
We need to start judging people for what they do and not what they look like. And we can all start by taking responsibility for the types of pictures and comments that we post on our own social networks. We can compliment
people based on their efforts and their actions and not based on their appearances.
3. Work together:
We all need to work together as community as government and as business. to really change this culture of ours so that our kids grow up valuing their whole self. right now how culture is obsession with image is holding us all back, but let show our kids the truth, let show them that the way you look is just one part of your identity. and that the truth is that we love them for who they are and what they do and how they make us feel. let each and every one of us change the way we talk, comparing ourselves to other people. and let work together as a communities, so that the happy little one year old of today become a confident change maker of tomorrow.
Well said, truly,we all need to work together as a communities, so that the children of today become a confident change maker of tomorrow.
He is perfect and he always provide for the needy.
He is the foundation of miracles and it all started with him why worry about your situation, he will definitely do a miracle in you life when you trust in him.
Happiness and joy will always abound in the life of those who have given their life to christ and are ready to offer him the savour everything they got.
His blessings are OK for us and those who trust in him the Lord has provided for us all we need to survive through his abundant grace and supernatural joy.
Love is the only thing that can save us from all our evil ways and all the bad things we do in life .
We should always give thanks to those who have done well for us and also make God our major focus in our life and what we do because he Is the only who was able to give us his only begotten son to die for us in the times of our need and when everything seems so bad and hard for us.
Physical appearances at times limits the prospects of a person's life as a matter of fact it was this issue that made Moses feel he's unworthy to face Pharaoh.
We are not how we look, we are an epitome of our inner self we are not how we look sound or behave, we are not ugly we only need to confess positively and carry ourselves the way we want people to address us.
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Every thought of negativity in our lives should be ruled out and place in the abyss, inferiority complex and evil thoughts should have no place in our hearts or minds to take refuge.
Love is the only thing that can save us from all our evil ways and all the bad things we do in life .
We should always give thanks to those who have done well for us and also make God our major focus in our life and what we do because he Is the only who was able to give us his only begotten son to die for us in the times of our need and when everything seems so bad and hard for us.
Let us all develop the spirit of oneness, togetherness and unity to prepare a great generation with strong active and positive mindset who will craft a better tomorrow.
No one can decide your self-worth. Let these talks serve as a gentle reminder that you are enough.
Nobody can choose your self-esteem. Give these discussions a chance to fill in as a delicate update that you are sufficient.
This is a great message. We have to help our teenagers to develop strategies to be able to overcome and build their self esteem. now the good news is that there are many programs available to do this. the bad news is, that most of them don't work. i even think that most of the programs often make the situation worst so we need to make sure that the programs that our kids are receiving are not only having a positive impact but also having a loss impact as well.
We need to start judging people for what they do and not what they look like. And we can all start by taking responsibility for the types of pictures and comments that we post on our own social networks. We can compliment
people based on their efforts and their actions and not based on their appearances. We all need to work together as community as government and as business. to really change this culture of ours so that our kids grow up valuing their whole self. right now how culture is obsession with image is holding us all back, but let show our kids the truth, let show them that the way you look is just one part of your identity. and that the truth is that we love them for who they are and what they do and how they make us feel. Let's us grow in confidence knowing we are created in the image and likeness of God
Our Mind-set is all that matters. The way we think reflects to our actions.
It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man.[ Psa 118.]
I rejoice that I have confidence in you in all things. [2 Cor 7.]
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@eromose-le
Thanks for sharing, we may look ugly physically, but our Lord made us to understand that he created us in his image, so for those who believe in him also have no intention of being ugly but always look attractive in the Lord.
Well said. This post is directed towards me. Henceforth, i will always tell myself. "You are the best thing that has ever happened to humanity"
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@abiye
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Well stated, truly,we all need to cooperate as a groups, with the goal that the offspring of today turn into a certain change creator of tomorrow.
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Thanks for sharing this post with us.
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