“I’m going out… I’m going to be late, why am I still looking in the mirror?… My hair looks great, stop scratching it, hurry up, hurry up…” ” This t-shirt is too short, it exposes your navel… No, no, no, go. Change it!” “How much time do you want to spend looking in the mirror? You don’t even have time to study, and you keep looking in the mirror… Go and review your homework…” These sentences are very common in families with teenage children. Are familiar. If you remind them too much, children will feel that it is unbearable. “Nagging”, “reading the sutra”, and then disagreeingparents and childrenThere is a struggle, but isn’t it really important? Is it really useless?
Department of Clinical Psychology, Songde Campus, Taipei City United HospitalpsychologistRao Yijun pointed out that from a psychological perspective, teenage children pay attention to their appearance and grooming, thereby developing their own body image (body image, which can also be translated as body image) and Hard work is being done to establish it. Concept and freedom.
Rav Yijun explained that so-called “body image” is simply a person’s understanding and attitude about his or her own body, which is often influenced by the external environment or social culture. For example, the media advocate that thinness is the ideal body shape, and that having a strong bodymuscleThis is masculinity. This type of aesthetics has set an unattainable beauty standard for boys and girls.
How to help children develop a healthy body image? Parents can try the following four strategies:
The ultimate goal of the adolescence stage is to become an independent individual separate from one’s parents. Children explore and integrate a complete self through an ensemble of diverse self-characteristics. When parents deny their dressing, it is tantamount to rejecting the child, which can easily lead to low self-esteem or low self-worth in the child. Parents need to help their children become more self-confident through respect, and respect and affirm their children’s appearance.
For teenage children, cognitive abilities are still developing, so even if some value standards are not appropriate, even if they are not appreciated in their hearts, they will often change with popular subculture. This is a herd behavior to gain acceptance from peers. Parents can arrange for their children to participate in a variety of interesting activities. When they receive achievement or recognition from them, they will be less concerned about whether their looks are similar to their peers or whether they are popular.
Discuss with the child in an appreciative manner the behavior of paying attention to the child’s dressing and try to understand the motivation behind the child’s dressing behavior and the appropriateness of the social status. In the process of continuous effort, the child gradually understands socially appropriate dress. Standardize and guide children to discover the image they really want, thereby establishing a correct aesthetic outlook.
Use some survey data related to healthy posture and appearance to let children understand some wrong thoughts and behaviors. For example: Many data show that when teenage children are dissatisfied with their weight and body image and want to lose weight, they often take diet pills, diets, extreme methods such as vomiting are not only for physical health. are harmful, but can also cause mental illness. Guided review of media content, develop an attitude of questioning bad information, and develop the ability to truly take control of your body image.
Source: Health Medical Network
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