Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Friendship, Power of Words, Resources, Schools on Oct 9th, 2009 5 Comments »
Does my bum look big in this?
I HATE MY THIGHS.
You look great–did you lose weight?
Fat talk. Many of us do it every day as we play the “compare and despair” game, trying to live up to an impossible stick-thin ideal of what we should look like and what it means to be feminine. [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Friendship, Parents, Plastic Surgery, Schools on Oct 30th, 2008 7 Comments »
The article below first appeared in the UK Daily Mirror in September of this year. It raises so many issues relating to teen girl friendships, self esteem, body image and parenting that I have decided to copy it in its entirity here.
Below the article are questions worth considering. Teachers: this would make an excellent stimulus for a discussion [...]
Posted in Bullying, Cyber world / Bullying, Friendship on Oct 23rd, 2008 6 Comments »
I have noticed a spate of articles in the media of late on “mean girls”; commentators have been quick to highlight, and to almost revel, in tales of adolescent girls who bully others.
I work face to face with hundreds of teenage girls from right across Australia and New Zealand each week. What do I see? Is [...]
Posted in Body Image, Friendship, Magazines, Parents, Power of Words on Sep 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
I am a HUGE fan of Postsecret. I am not sure if you know about this community art project but an American man started leaving random notes asking strangers to send him a postcard sharing their secrets with him.
It started a phenomena and is ongoing. Selected cards have been turned into beautiful books and his [...]
Posted in Body Image, Friendship, Media, Parents, Resources, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Aug 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
This week I want to share extracts from “Teenage Mental health: girls shout out!”, the third research report recently released by GirlGuiding UK:
Teenage mental health: Girls shout out! is an investigation into girls’ experiences of both hard-to manage and challenging feelings and recognised mental health problems. The report considers a new generation of potential triggers for [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Cyber world / Bullying, Friendship, Magazines, Media, Parents, Plastic Surgery, Schools, Underage Drinking on Apr 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
AND the importance of moving beyond finger pointing.
Queensland school girls have formed an exclusive club, known as Club 21, which encourages members to be ranked between 1 and 21 based on their thinness, good looks, binge drinking escapades and popularity with boys. This number is then drawn on their hand for all to see.
The club [...]
Posted in Bullying, Cyber world / Bullying, Friendship, Mobile Phones, Parents, Power of Words on Mar 9th, 2008 8 Comments »
Guest Post by Enlighten Education’s Program Director for Queensland, Storm Greenhill Brown
Is it just me or does the proliferation of mobile phones among even our youngest school children worry others too? When waiting to pick up my son from school I often see girls as young as six or seven walking along avidly engaged with their [...]
Posted in Enlighten Education, Friendship, Parents, Schools, Transition to High School on Jan 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
“Sail away from the safe harbor. Dream. Discover. Explore.”
Mark Twain.
The Enlighten team running The Journey at Ascham School.
The transition to high school for students can be exciting but also challenging as they must learn to traverse a new (and usually much bigger) landscape with different expectations and possibly with less individual nurturing than they [...]
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