7 Ways We Can Help Girls Build Each Other Up
At our residential multicultural summer camp in the Midwest–located less than two hours from Chicago–we urge girls to be the best they can be while empowering other girls to do the same. Although we now have blended- and boys-only sessions to complement our girls-only sessions, we started with a single two week girls-only camp in 2007.
We take great pride in helping our girls maximize their own and others’ potential. Indeed, especially when society can impose additional challenges that come from men and boys, this world needs women who are willing to build each other up. A recent Washington Post article has some good tips on how parents can help their daughter(s) build up themselves and female peers. Bullets below, with the whole article available by clicking here!
- Urge your daughter to use social media for good. Suggest that she gives positive shout-outs to females.
- Take fewer selfies and more “us-ies” by including friends in photos.
- Help her use expansive body language.
- Remind your daughter she deserves as much space as anyone else.
- Talk about how posture is important to overall health.
- Normalize giving and seeking help.
- Help your daughter identify her support system.
- Create opportunities for your daughter to approach you when she is experiencing conflict.
- Emphasize controllable internalities over uncontrollable externalities.
- Set goals that are based on enjoyment and improvement.
- Help your daughter focus on her performance, not how she compares to others.
- Identify fierce, kind female characters.
- Start by helping her identify female role models in her life.
- Look towards positive celebrities to show your daughter how females can be powerful and caring of others.
- Urge your daughter to be loyal.
- Emphasize that she should commit to stay by a friend’s side through it all.
- Remind your daughter that arguments happen between the best of friends.
- Encourage her to join a team.
- Being part of a team takes the focus away from “I” and “me” and puts it on “we” and “us.”
- Social status is more connected to being a part of a whole.
- Good teams help build trust that each person will do their part.
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