A lot of what girls need today is self-confidence. Our girls are so influenced by social media that it becomes a gauge for how they look, how to act, what they should be doing, and most of the time the things you see in social media are not really healthy or right for young girls.
Young girls equate how they are seen on social media as acceptance and inclusion. Their self-confidence is then rooted and linked to what social media says and what’s trending when it should be internal and should come from within.
Young girls need to recognize and realize what they love about themselves, rather than what social media dictates.
Young girls mostly have identity issues. They usually are not aware of who they are. They don’t know their worth or their value, and just try to follow what others are doing.
But, if we go deeper we realize that a lot of what we are seeing today on young girls stems from the home front. A lot of mental issues and identity issues are not being addressed because the parents themselves have their own mental and identity issues.
This creates a division in the household and these young girls are left with nobody to tell them what the right way to go is. And when the village comes in and tries to intervene, that’s when parents get the pushback on their child.
The reality of the times is a lot of parents today want to give up and throw in the towel. A lot of parents are not in this for the long haul. But parenting is the only job that you’re going to get. There’s never a vacation, even when the children have grown and on their own.
Parents have to stop looking for reasons why they are going to throw in the towel on their children. They have to stop using embarrassment and humiliation on their children. It is not right to trap and shame children, especially young girls.
When we look at today’s generation, let’s pull back the layers and see where these children are really coming from. Let’s talk. Let’s talk about the issues. Let’s talk about rape, about emotional abuse, about domestic violence.
How do we heal from these things if we don’t talk about them? How do we expose what is hurting us or our young girls if we don’t converse about it?
If cancer goes untreated, it spreads to another part of the body. If abuse gets untreated, it spreads and filters through the body and causes the victim to have an altered mental state.
From the day we were born, life experiences can happen to us of which we have no control over. It is embedded in us like seeds planted in our subconscious mind.
They are suppressed and then become triggered by events and experiences that occur in our life as we grow older. They begin to come out and then we become confused and we don’t understand why we are behaving and reacting the way we are. We don’t remember or have forgotten what happened to us as a child and then these triggers bring them out which affects how we react and deal with our situation.