The Dove Self-Esteem Project: Detox Your Feed
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in partnership with leading self esteem expert dr philippa Did Rix The Dove self esteem project presents a four step guide in talking to your kids about toxic social media advice. This advice can be found in many social media formats, such as images, videos, articles, and ads, it can harm girls self esteem if it encourages unrealistic or narrowly define beauty standards and suggests that achieving the perfect appearance is key to self worth Today. One in two girls, they idealized beauty content on social media is damaging to their self esteem and seven in 10 girls felt better after on following it. The following are just three examples of harmful advice to look out for fit. Sparacio content implies that an ideal body can be achieved by following a diet exercise program or product. It places greater emphasis on how the body looks instead of what it can do and how it feels. Thinspiration content often shows images of extremely thin bodies or show quotes, discouraging, eating other content, can even normalize or minimize the potential dangers of elective cosmetic procedures, exposure to this can increase the likelihood of young people wanting to undergo these expensive and often unregulated operations. And while the impact of this will depend on several factors such as the child sensitivity, purse, personality and their skills to analyze media messages over time, repeated exposure to this type of idealized imagery can be damaging to young people's body confidence and self esteem. To help young people to find beauty on their own terms, we need to equip them with the tools to identify this type of advice, Here's your four step guide to help detox your child's feed. Step one prep 80% of girls would like for their parents to talk to them about how to manage idealized beauty content. And young people whose parents show an interest in their social media feeds are more likely to understand the intentions behind this advice, spend some time on popular platforms, familiarize yourself with settings and built in safety functions. Follow the accounts your child engages with most and discuss with them which types of accounts, videos and influencers they like and why? Step to chat, discuss idealized beauty content by finding some examples with your child. For example, search for hashtag beauty hack on Tiktok or instagram, ask your child what they think the impact of following or engaging with all this advice could have on young people's ideas about beauty and self esteem over time and remind them that many social posts are paid advertisements and are sometimes not authentic advice step three detox, spend 10 minutes together scrolling through your social media feeds, show them how to hide unfollowed or click not interested on accounts that make them feel bad if they feel good not seeing these posts for a week, encourage them to an follow those accounts and remind them that the accounts they engage with will shape what they see in the future, encourage them to build a positive feed by engaging with authentic accounts that inspire and promote a positive experience of beauty. Step four repeat to encourage new habits, Speak to other parents, mentors and guardians to discuss ways to help, For example, encouraging young people to set reminders to do a feed, tune up every few weeks to one follow accounts that may be damaging to their self esteem. Authentic real content created by friends, family influencers or brands that is unfiltered, positive and neutral and attitude toward appearance can boost young people's mood and confidence for more guidance on the movement. To help detox your feed, go to Dove dot com slash detoxify to download the confidence kid join us to help build self esteem and body confidence in a quarter billion young people all over the world. Let's change Beauty.