This weeks article did not surprise me much. Unfortuantely, I have seen so many children wearing provocative cloathes. With the role models children have to pick from it is not surprising that we are seeing this at such young ages. Just recently, I had a fifth grade girl that was standing in bus line and singing lyrics from a song that I was not famliar with. I asked her what the words meant, and she said she's not sure she just likes saying the lyrics. Unforunately, this happens so many times. Kids repeat what they hear without fully understanding what it is.
If the music industry isn't bad enough, we have the reality tv shows! I despise the show with the little girls all made up in makeup and dancing provocatively...I don't know the name but it's something Tiaras. This show is degrading to these beautiful little girls, I think it is more the mothers living a fantasy through their child...sick! What is more despicable, is that these little girls think that they are so much better and prettier than other girls...now we are raising and promoting bullies! Just last year I had a first grade student that after lunch would come in the classroom and stick her fingers down her throat to make herself sick! When confronted about it she said she was fat and needed to get thin...the girl was perfect weight for her height. As a society we have put way to much emphasis on appearance and image. People have now developed a model for Barbie - because according to men she has the perfect figure, but realistically it's not possible, but our young children don't understand that.
As educators, we need to help our students build and maintain a healthy image of themselves. I truly believe that it is never to young to promote positive self esteem in any child.
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