Helping Your Daughter To Have The Confidence She Needs

Raising a healthy daughter is something that all parents are interested in

, but you need to be able to recognize the problems that you may be dealing with in order to help her to cope with them successfully. These problems may include a lack of self-esteem, usually that manifests itself in eating disorders as well as depression that may show up at a very young age.

It is thought that a girls self-esteem peaks somewhere around the age of nine years old. After that time, they begin to give in to peer pressure and the subliminal influence of the media, in order to alter their body shape to conform to what is considered normal. As a matter of fact, a large percentage of girls as young as 10 years old begin to diet regularly in order to fit into this mold. This leads to a number of different challenges, including serious eating disorders and, of course, low self-esteem and depression.

Along with the above, many young girls develop an unnatural attitude towards sex at too young an age. Although many people would consider this to be an enlightened viewpoint, it is actually destroying your children on the inside. You should speak to your children early about the consequences of this behavior, and help them to understand that it is not a good thing. Help them to be comfortable with themselves as they are, and that their feelings are normal and the changes they are going through are healthy.

One of the most important things that you can do in order to help your daughter through these difficult times is to give them all of the positive reinforcement and love that they can absorb. Become a role model to your child, and assist them in finding their own way, with your guidance of course. When you do this properly, you can help them to avoid a lot of the heartache that most teenage girls experience.

Your daughter will grow up to be a confident adult, if given the "secrets" to understanding how to be secure within herself.

by: Maureen Amberg

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