• April 26, 2024

"Thanks to the abuse of the female figure by a sensationalist culture and advertising media that seek to attract more public and achieve greater sales, physical beauty has become a paramount value for which most women are willing to pay a high price ", explains Ángeles Marulanda, author of "Let's continue growing with our children".

Children may have confusion regarding the way they appreciate beauty in girls, as well as them, have a distorted idea about the importance of aesthetics in relation to their value as a person and thus grow with an idea unclear about the impact of physical and emotional health on their development.

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More beautiful than any

In the United States a television program is carried out in which girls from pre-school age up to twelve years old participate to win a beauty contest and test their skills in dance and their performance on stage.

The topic to reflect on in this case is whether the effort that not only the small ones make, also the parents so that the attributes that they have are accompanied by a message that helps them to keep in mind that the physical is only a part that characterizes to people, but it's not everything.

It is not about fighting with the idea that taking care of physical beauty means a merely superficial exercise, just emphasizing how valuable it is for boys to keep in mind that their appearance does not define their value as persons, nor their moral quality.

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The French writer George Sand He said: "The outer beauty is nothing but the charm of an instant. The appearance of the body is not always the reflection of the soul. " A phrase that is well worth having at hand to let the little ones know that it is very important that they do not distract or in the worst case, confuse the interest or appreciation that they can feel towards a person just because of their appreciation of what It is beauty.

Angela Marulanda comments that it is important to convey to both girls and boys that a woman is beautiful not because of her external forms but because of her inner wealth: "Her beauty is not in the figure; it is seen in his eyes, which are the window of the goodness of his heart and the purity of his feelings.

It is not in the softness of his skin or in the shine of his hair, but in the tenderness of his caresses and the sweetness of his words; neither in the perfection and solidity of its contours, but in the strength of its convictions and principles ", concludes the author.