Mum, mum, pass the spray tan

Happy Thursday readers,

Tomorrow I'm off to assist in transforming the lives of 26 people about to embark in a course that will change their life and subsequently the lives of those who they touch, just like I did less than 12 short months ago. Getting into the business of transforming lives is both rewarding and at times heart breaking as I'm constantly looking for errors in our human ways in order to create opportunities to help the planet change.

My partner came home from working the other day and explained to me a horrifying image of something he witnessed at a customers house. He saw a mother and her 7 year old daughter sitting at the kitchen table seemingly spending some quality time together. What he soon realised was that the young girl was actually getting prepared for the warmer months by spraying her self with artificial tan. Sheesh!

If any of you have pay TV you may be aware of a show affectionately known as Toddlers and Tiara's. This show is an American program that follows the child pageant circuit and all it entails. You see girls as young as 6 months old getting their make up done and dressed up like a doll that we used to play with. You will also be privy to little girls with spray tans, hair pieces, sexy outfits accompanied by dance routines and false teeth; no one likes to see gappy teeth in a growing child do they?

These girls are paraded like show dogs around the platform and are judged on categories such as who is the prettiest and who has the best dress on. At no point does the girl get to show her value on who she is and girls will actually be penalised and lose points if they look too natural.

Is this a sport? Is this a way for the normally overweight mothers to play "dolls" and relive their childhood through their daughters? What on earth are these young girls learning? How much value is actually being placed on their identity, creativity, non pageant talents, knowledge, personality and values. These girls are getting brought up to believe that this is all there is, that beauty is all that makes up a person.

Between the ages of 0-7 is know as the imprint period and it's a time in a child's development where they absorb everything so they can create meaning to the world. This is where all our initial learning of the world and who we are comes from, this is an extremely delicate period of time in any one's development. 

Can anyone remember a memory of that time where you made a decision about something, someone or even yourself. Do you see that unless you have consciously changed it then you still hold that view? For all you parents out there; relax, these beliefs can be changed.

Even more concerning is that between the ages of 8-15 is the modelling period where we follow idols, mentors, hero's, celebrities and role models. 

So if  in the first 15 years of life the young girls like those in Toddlers and Tiara's ( and millions more) are building beliefs based on superficiality and modelling the likes of celebrities or even worse still the girls that came before them, what hope do those poor girls have at a confident and self assured future.

The way the young girls are being raised is more than disgusting, it's child abuse.

Protect their future by making sure you are comfortable and confident in your own skin, so we can show the women of tomorrow what real women are.

Cheers K

For more of my views on confidence and image. Follow this link to your free report: Screw what the media says, I'm perfect just the way I am. 

http://moreconfidence.com.au/free_media_report