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| Website | Girl Power website | Girl Scouts / Health Dept. teamed to make this neat Girl Power website |
| Website | Games for Groups | |
| Website | Campaign For Real Beauty | Download this true you! Workbook "Sometimes I feel ugly" and other truths about growing up-An activity guide for mothers and daughters. A mom is one of the most important influences in the life of a daughter. Whether you are a step-mom, and auntie, a grandmother, a big sister or just a loving friend, the role of a "mother" is important and necessary in a girl's development. |
| Website | Campaign For Real Beauty - BodyTalk | With the aid of the Dove Self-Esteem Fund, BodyTalk is being developed in the United Kingdom. It's a workshop designed to help young girls (and boys) understand and deal with feelings about their physical appearance, and learn how "ideal" images of beauty are created. |
| Website | Family Guide | A Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy & Drug Free The Family Guide helps families promote their 7-to-18 year-old's mental health and reduce his or her risk for becoming involved with alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs and eating disorders. |
| Website | National Eating Disorders | The National Eating Disorders Association has extensive info on what to do if you are concerned about a friend or family member's eating, treatment, info for educators, etc. |
| Website | Winnipeg School Division on "Body Image" | The following is an extensive guide to information, including books, av materials, journal articles and websites available through the Library Resource Centre at Library Support Services in the Winnipeg School Division on "Body Image." |
| Website | Girl Scouts - Dove Self Esteem Fund | The Dove Self-Esteem Fund is collaborating with Girl Scouts of the USA to promote uniquely ME! The Girl Scout/Dove Self-Esteem Program, which addresses the important issue of low-self esteem among tween and teenage girls. |
| Website | New Moon | New Moon is a refreshingly different magazine with 48 advertising-free pages edited by and for girls ages 8-14. It has Fiction, poetry, artwork and letters, Science experiments and cartoons, Award-winning articles about the lives of girls and women around the globe, Six Parents Choice Gold Awards, Free learning activities and curriculum and more! |
| Website | SHAPEDOWN | Children and teens in SHAPEDOWN enhance their self-esteem, improve peer relationships, adopt healthier habits and begin to normalize their weight within their genetic potential. Parents feel better about their parenting and about their child. The family becomes healthier and closer |
| Website | Jean Kilbourne | Awesome site-lots of resources! Empowering girls and building self-esteem through uplifting books by Catherine Dee. Inspiration and encouragement for preteen and teen daughters, nieces, students, and friends. Award-winning books for girls on life, success, wisdom, women's rights, friendship, and love. Empowerment resources and tips for parents, teachers, aunts, uncles, and mentors. Workshops and speeches for girls, young women, and adults http://www.empowergirls.com/ Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (jkilbourne@aol.com) is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. Her films, slide lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. She was named by The New York Times Magazine as one of the three most popular speakers on college campuses today. Her book, Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, won the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology in 2000. She is also known for her award-winning documentaries Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes, and Calling the Shots. |
| Website | Blog - Dolls Lose Their Innocence | Article titled, "Dolls Lose Their Innocence". The toys our children play with can effect their body image. |
| Website | Reshaping Body Image | This activity helps students dissect the current social norms about physical size and appearance. In this lesson, students consider where we get our ideas about body image and investigate various influences, including culture, family and media. Using images from different historical periods and cultures, students are then challenged to understand and move beyond current social norms about physical size and appearance. The lesson concludes with a reflection on the impact of size bias on all people, and ways to emphasize the internal rather than external qualities of others. |
| Website | Stop Bullying Now | You can learn all about bullying and what you can do to stop it. Take a look around and you’ll find games and cartoon Webisodes that help you Take a Stand. Lend a Hand. Stop Bullying Now! |
| Website | | "Our inability to see beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty." - Rabbi Harold Kushner |
| Quote | | "I am the sum of my parts and infinitely more so. The hum of my brain, the curve of my torso. The spark of my wit, the depth of my heart. Size is no measure in such a work of art" (from a Hanes Her Way ad) |
| Quote | | "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position". -Leo Buscaglia |
| Quote | | "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead |
| Quote | | "Why should I have to be a skinny pencil? I'd rather be a happy magic marker." - Natalie on "Facts of "Life" |
| Quote | | "She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her." Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth |
| Quote | | Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Quote | | Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931) |
| Quote | | Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5. -Roseanne |
| Quote | | People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
| Quote | | Can you imagine what would happen if girls took all the energy they spend worrying about their image and put it into painting, writing, theorizing, science, or sports? -Joan Jacobs Brumberg, writer |
| Quote | | "Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful." |
| Quote | | "To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are." |
| Quote | | "If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that you someday might find yourself believing that's all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty. But what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind…your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage". -Susan Sarandon as Marmee in the movie Little Women; Robin Swicord, screen writer |
| Quote | | "I think of people as flowers-there are many different colors, shapes, and sizes of flowers, and all of them are beautiful". |
| Quote | | "The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul". -George Sand, writer 1804-1876 |
| Quote | | "God gave you only one body, so you better be nice to it". -Sadie Delany, educator, writer |
| Quote | | "In writing, in art, personal expression is what people want. Women are taught to hide that, to fit the mold, to be Chameleons. But people want to see who you are, what you're about". -Lynda Pearson, advertising executive |
| Quote | | I believe that true identity is found in creative activity springing from within. It is found when one loses oneself. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer |
| Quote | | "If you don't say it, nobody's going to know about it". -Aliza Sherman, entrepreneur, internet expert, writer |
| Quote | | "Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over". Bella Abzug, lawyer, politician, women's rights activist, 1920-1998 |
| Quote | | A person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others. -Tara Grady |
| Quote | | Those who look for beauty, find it. -Unknown |
| Quote | | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. -Margaret Wolfe Hungerford |
| Quote | | The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony. -Mary Baker Eddy |
| Quote | | [The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. -Marlene Dietrich |
| Quote | | I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Quote | | The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Quote | | Gravity and Grace Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it. -Simone Weil |
| Quote | | ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations) Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. -David Hume |
| Quote | | Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. -Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931) |
| Quote | | For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. -Ivan Panin |
| Quote | | It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart. -Anonymous |
| Quote | | Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. -Roy R. Gilson |
| Quote | | A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Quote | | The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. -Havelock Ellis ["Impressions and Comments" (1914)] |
| Quote | | Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature. -Louis Orr (speech to the American Medical Association, 6/6/60) |
| Quote | | Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. -Sophia Loren |
| Quote | | A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. -John Keats |
| Quote | | We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. -Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Quote | | Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. -Jean Anouilh |
| Quote | | Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. -Marcus Aurelius |
| Quote | | Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Quote | | Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. -Ernest Renan |
| Quote | | The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own-even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. -Katherine Anne Porter |
| Quote | | Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. -John Ruskin |
| Quote | | To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. -William Shakespeare |
| Quote | | Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. -John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Quote | | "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Poems | True Beauty by Chad A Booher | Beauty is a thing seldom seen No one sees it because no one looks Or at least not in the right place Beauty is held by all Within the soul it lies Waiting to come out to the surface Only it can't Beauty is suppressed by the evils of the world Only love can bring beauty out Once seen Beauty never hides again Not even hatred can deny beauty Of it's true design Beauty although possessed by all Will only ever be truly seen by few And fewer yet will ever see One of the most beautiful sights The beauty held by you |
| Book | I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem by Jamie Lee Curtis | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Who Calls Me Beautiful? Finding Our True Image in the Mirror of God by Regina Franklin | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Body wars: Making peace with women's bodies: An Activist's guide by Margo Maine | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Mom, I Feel Fat by Sharon Hersh | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Mother to Daughter: Shared Wisdom from the Heart by Melissa Harrison | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | The Girl's Book of Wisdom Empowering Quotes from over 400 fabulous females. Edited by Catherine Dee | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Real Beauty: 101 ways to Feel Great About You by Theresa Kauchak | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Let's Hear it for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14 by Erica Bauermeister and Holly Smith | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | The Care and Keeping of You | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | The Feelings Book: The Care and Keeping of your Emotions | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | True Stories: Girls' Inspiring Stories of Courage and Heart | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | The Care and Keeping of Friends | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | A Smart Girl's Guide to Friendship Troubles | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | NIV Young Women of Faith Bible | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Girl Politics by Nancy Rue | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | She Teen; Safe, Healthy and Empowered Teen by Rebecca St. James and Linda Hunter Bjorklund | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Brave New Girls; Creative Ideas to Help Girls Be Confident, Healthy and Happy by Jeanette Gadeberg | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Book | Keep Talking: Mother's Guide to Pre-Teen by Linda Madison | Linked to Amazon.com for further description |
| Bible Verse | 1 Peter 3:3-4 | Do not adorn yourselves outwardly by braiding your hair, and by wearing gold ornaments or fine clothing; rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God's sight. —1 Peter 3:3-4 |
| Bible Verse | Proverbs 31:29-30 | Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.' Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. —Proverbs 31:29-30 |
| Bible Verse | Psalm 139:14 | I praise you for I am amazingly and wonderfully made. —Psalm 139:14 |
| Bible Verse | 1 Corinthians 12:12 | For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. —1 Corinthians 12:12 |
| Bible Verse | Jeremiah 1:4-5a | Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you." —Jeremiah 1:4-5a |
| Bible Verse | 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 | "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body." —1 Corinthians 6:19-20 |