Helping Your Teenager To Feel Beautiful
Being a teenager is an awkward time, especially for teenage girls. It is easy to feel self-conscious about one's body, which is always changing, and it is hard to feel good about one's self. That's why, as a parent, you need to do all you can to help your teenager feel good about herself. Here are some tips that will help you to help your daughter.
The first thing you have to do is to talk to your daughter and see how she feels about herself. It can be tough to talk to teenagers, so you have to see when she feels like opening up. As her parent, you probably know which times of the day are better than others. When you get an idea of how she feels about herself, you can go on from there.
Empower her to make choices about her appearance. This is a strange time and awkward time for kids and adults. You are still buying her clothes, but her tastes may be changing. Allow her to choose her own clothes. You can even put money on a prepaid credit card and allow her to make purchases without you. If you are worried about certain styles, make sure you set some restrictions before setting her free in the mall!
Look for new haircuts. When girls turn into teenagers, the hairstyles you thought were adorable may not be what she has is in mind for herself as a young lady. Take her to a good salon where she can get the kind of haircut she wants.
Help her to start using makeup. If your daughter wants to start using makeup, think about how you can allow that to happen. A lot of teenage girls start putting too much makeup on because they are not taught the proper way to apply it. To avoid that with your own daughter, take her to a makeup counter and let a professional apply her makeup. Then your daughter will know what products to use and how to apply it. You can help her on a day to day basis.
Accept that she is different than you are. Part of your teen daughter's body image comes from you. If you are always criticizing her, she is not going to feel comfortable about herself. Even if you wouldn't use hair chalk, for example, don't be too harsh about her choice to do so. Let her begin to make her own decisions about how she looks, and compliment her.
After reading this article, hopefully you feel confident that you can help your daughter through this awkward time of her life. When you use the tips in this article to help you, you can empower her to start feeling good about the way she looks, so that she can have a happier life as a teenager. The lessons you teach her now will carry through to adulthood, so if you use the tips here, you are setting her up for a lifetime of confidence and security.
