Letter - Tell children that beauty isn't everything
As students of the Alexandria Technical and Community College Child Development program, we would like to inform more people about the importance of knowing how the media influences young children.
To the editor:
As students of the Alexandria Technical and Community College Child Development program, we would like to inform more people about the importance of knowing how the media influences young children.
Media such as commercials, TV shows and magazines show more women having to be very slim and men to be more muscular. This shows young children that they have to grow up to look just like that if they want to get anywhere in life. Commercials have gotten so that women are starting to show more skin, causing young girls to start to think they need to dress this way too.
Magazines and commercials are also full of make-up, which is sending the message out that natural beauty isn’t good enough anymore. It is also sending the message that beauty is everything and the inside person doesn’t matter. We need to start telling our young children that beauty isn’t everything. It can’t get you everywhere in life.
Desiree McDonough
and Megan Sanders,
Alexandria Technical and
Community College Child
Development program students
Alexandria, MN
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