How to teach your Daughters about Beauty
Here I will share 5 ways to teach your Daughters about beauty. The beauty standards across the world change everyday. Even if we don’t hold ourselves to the world’s standards, we still may get glimpses of it especially through social media. In an ever changing world I strive to always create a constant for my children even when it comes to beauty. Here are 5 ways we teach beauty to our daughters in our home.
1.) Beauty is being a GOOD person.
I read a quote one day that said, you don’t have to be nice, sometimes being nice puts you in situations that you get treated poorly or walked over. I can agree with that quote so instead of telling my children to be nice, I teach them to be kind. Most most importantly I teach them to be a high quality, intentional, considerate human being which to me are actions of a kind person. Which in the long haul would result in them being a GOOD person, At least that’s what I think. But beauty is nothing without a good heart so when you teach your children what Beauty is remind them it starts within.
2.) No matter what the number on the scale is, it always means beautiful
As a grown woman I find much difficultly taking the number on the scale for what it says and moving on. I never want my girls to linger there and question their value because of that number! So anytime they want to “play” on the scale, I tell them it says beautiful as the red numbers come across the screen. I also tell them, those numbers reflect their weight and despite the fact that those numbers with continually change, it always means beautiful.
3.) Mirror Affirmations
Let the mirror be a place of reflecting on one’s beauty from the inside out. We have a full affirmations list we go through with our girls in the morning and at night. In hopes that if the anyone ever attempted to break them down, and make them question who they are. They would remember all the times we focused on speaking truth and life over them to build them up! Here is a list of positive non-appearance based affirmations that make a person beautiful.
- I am kind
- I am considerate
- I am encouraging
- I am brave
- I am Helpful
4.) When Mommy applies make up it’s not because she thinks she’s ugly
Currently my kids are at the age where they are very much so intrigued by everything I do! Including putting on make up. My oldest asked me one day why I did it! I told her because “it enhances my features”. This may not be true for everyone but for me, I truly enjoy wearing make up because it allows me to enhance the features of my face that I love! Although makeup can cover blemishes I want my girls to hold fast to the idea that make can enhance the things they love most about themselves too!
5.) We always say “Beautiful With, Beautiful Without”
We always say Beautiful With, Beautiful without when it comes to our girls hair. They have full curly heads, it often looks beautifully untamed when they wake up and when I style it, it looks beautifully neat. We always remind our girls they are beautiful with their hair done and they are beautiful without it done. They are beautiful just the way they are because of who they are inside.
You have just read How to teach your Daughters about beauty. I want to encourage you that, while our children are young, we set the standards, we are their source of truth. When they get older, the world, friends and even family will share their opinions and thoughts on beauty. As long as you remain a source of truth to your children they will always remember what, Mama taught them about themselves and most of all what you said about them. So I encourage you to implement one or all of these five lessons on beauty as early as possible.
Cheers to raising Daughters,
xx Classically Faith xx
