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Comments- Mrs. Whitley- I like your quote.

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1. I think girls experience a significant drop in self-confidence when they hit puberty is because they start to change and they might not like the way they look.

2. 4% of women around the world consider themselves beautiful

11% are comfortable using the word beautiful to describe themselves

72% of girls feel pressure to be beautiful

80% of women agree that they have something beautiful about themsleves , but do not see their own beauty

3."Imperfection is beauty , madness is genius , and it's better to be absolutley ridiculous than absolutley boring ." -Marylin Monroe

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1. I think that girls experience a drop in self-confidence when they hit puberty due to all of the pressure to be "beautiful" to the standard set in the media. My girls tell me that at Manheim Township, that kids make fun of other kids for not wearing brand name clothing. Does that happen at CV? The standard for beauty is impossible to reach, and the pressure for value being measured by appearance is off the charts. True beauty comes from within, but that is not the message that girls hear pounded at them from every angle. There is way too much pressure to equate beauty with worth, or lack of beauty with lack of worth.

2. From article entitled Teenagers and Self Esteem: Key Factors

For teenager’s, girls particularly, the social pressures exerted by constant media messages about the perceived ideal body type can cause significant levels of dissatisfaction about their body. This is compounded by increased anxiety in relation to the changes that are occurring within a girl’s body and the constant subtle and, not so subtle, comparisons to peers and others. - See more at: http://understandingteenagers.com.au/blog/2010/05/teenagers-and-self-esteem-key-factors/#sthash.gFQBuXkg.dpuf

3. “Step Away from the Mean Girls…
…and say bye-bye to feeling bad about your looks.
Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world.”
― Oprah Winfrey

4. This quote by Oprah Winfrey is a call to freedom. It encourages us to be ourselves without being critical of ourselves. It is a call to revolutionize the way we view ourselves. It is about celebrating individual uniqueness instead of the pressure of conformity.

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Luis: I like your idea that true leaders make it their ambition to boost the confidence of others.

Sarah: That is a very powerful comic with exactly the portrayal of how much the media pressures us to feel horrible about ourselves based on appearances. The best boyfriends are those who treasure girls, not those who just look good. Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain. True beauty is treating others with kindness.

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1. I think that girls experience drop in self-confidence when they hit puberty because they want to be different so that people don't end up picking on them or making fun of them.

2. From the article

Self-esteem that's based on external sources has mental health consequences, study says
College students who based their self-worth on academic performance did not receive higher grades despite being highly motivated and studying more hours each week than students who did not rate academic performance as important to their self-esteem,
3. “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”

4. The meaning of this quote is that you should always confront the dark parts of yourself instead of just letting them sit there inside yourself and effect yourself later on down the road.

Comments: Mrs.Whitley: I like the quote that you choose because I think people should just set the bad parts of themselves aside and just enjoy the good parts of them that they have.

Luis: I like the quote that you have and that people should be more to find a way to boost their self-esteem.

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1. Girls experience a big drop in self-confidence because when you hit puberty a lot of change can happen. But a lot of girls want to be pretty and what not so their self-esteem goes down if they get acne and everything else.

2. when girls have low self-esteem it sticks around with them very long and when they don't like their looks they tend to miss school.

3. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe

4. The meaning of this quote is to be yourself and not be what others want you to be. If somebody wants you to change, don't change for anyone. Do what you want.

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Sarah: I like your quote because it basically means to don't down yourself in any way and if you do, it means that in life you are going to hate yourself for downing yourself all the times that you do.

Luis-I like your quote because

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1- Because they are really trying to figure themselves out.

2- Boys and girls are both starting puberty much earlier.

3- Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton

4.It means that the truly great leaders help to boost the self esteem of others before them selves.

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Sarah- I like your quote.

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1. So many changes are occurring mentally and physically at this time that girls are sometimes overwhelmed with what is happening to them.

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Anorexia is the third most common long-term illness among teenagers.

3. “I wasn’t strong enough to have an eating disorder…I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, ‘Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately,” she said to ET. This is from Demi Lovato.

4.I think Demi knew other girls who were experiencing the agony of anorexia and felt for a moment that she wanted to be a part of this group as misguided as it might have been. She admitted to be chubby and knew other girls who were handling what they thought was a weight issue by purging, etc., which occurs with anorexia.

Comments I think the class has put a good deal of thought in answering these questions. We need to all recognize that each of us is different and that to follow an idea that there should be one image, one way of behaving, and we should all have a hollywood - type appearance is so hurtful to society.