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How to Talk to Your Child About Appearance: Expert Advice
12.01.2023 21:31
Updated: 13.04.2023 10:26
Children start thinking about their appearance from a fairly early age, as parents attach great importance to it.
The child begins to understand that appearance is something important and significant, so it must be ideal.
It is worth understanding that fixation on one’s own image can cause the development of many psychological problems, which can have a significant impact on the child’s mental state.
How to talk to children about appearance?
Pay less attention to this issue
If a child constantly hears about something, he considers it important. Therefore, parents should stop discussing appearance in front of their children.
Even if you generally give positive evaluations to the images of others, this may not be entirely beneficial for the child's psyche. On the contrary, this way you can strengthen in the mind the idea that it is important to have a pleasant appearance in order to gain approval and praise, experts believe.
The importance of health
Many modern people risk their health in order to become attractive and beautiful. This is a very dangerous desire.
Help your child understand that health should always come first.
Don't make beauty your main value
Children are not endowed with knowledge about the structure of the world, so they mainly transmit the values that were instilled in the family. Do not teach a child that attractiveness is the most important achievement of a person.
Focus on kindness, decency, honesty, intelligence, nobility. Let the child develop fully.
