Do you want to boost your child’s self-esteem? Use our practical articles and activities to help your daughter or son develop a positive body image, and worry less about how their looks compare with others.
Young people change enormously during adolescence, and sometimes their self-esteem suffers. As a parent, you want to help your child feel good about themselves, and having positive conversations about appearance is an important part of that.
You need to be tuned in to your child's changing needs, and help them develop an empowered attitude to their looks. You can also raise their confidence by discouraging them from comparing themselves with others, whether friends, classmates or people in the media.
Focusing on who they are as a person, and their relationships with family and friends, will reduce negative body talk. We’ve compiled these articles and activities to help your child make that shift – and to give you some ideas on how to support them.
So start reading and sharing today – and help boost your child's confidence.
Help your child develop a positive body image
Tips and advice on helping your child develop a positive body image & cope with the influence of teenage fashion trends, celebrity role models & the media.
Building body image and self-esteem is a journey for young people, shaped by their experiences. To support this, we've teamed up with Discovery Education and Psychologists and body image experts from Arizona State University to create Amazing Me, a free collection of classroom resources designed to boost confidence and teach self-esteem.
The True to Me program helps kids and teens build their self-esteem by incorporating body image, or the way we think and feel about how we look and what our bodies can do, into their overall sense of self-worth. It focuses on creating a balanced and diverse self-concept that doesn’t give disproportionate significance to physical appearance.
Dove and Nike have launched Body Confident Sport, a body confidence campaign to make sport a place of belonging for girls. Find out what makes it so special.
Free Being Me (FBM) is an educational programme that promotes a world free from appearance[1]related anxiety. FBM first began in 2013, developed in partnership with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), the Dove Self Esteem Project (DSEP) and the Centre of Appearance Research (CAR).
