My Feet Aren't Ugly - A Book on Self Esteem for Girls

Debra Beck Teaches How to Raise an Empowered Daughter

Low self-esteem is becoming a pandemic around the world.

Girls as young as eight are criticizing their bodies and determining at an early age what will need fixing to get them to perfection.

Debra Beck, author of My Feet Aren't Ugly, isn't just turning a blind to this issue - she's helping teen girls feel better about themselves and teaching parents and grandparents how to help build self-esteem in their offspring.

In My Feet Aren't Ugly, Beck gives insight into what it takes for a young girl to develop a healthy level of confidence - in her appearance, her relationships, and the decisions that she makes.

She takes into account the ritual teenage years that are ripe with anxiety, self doubt, and peer pressure. It's a celebration of every young girl's uniqueness and a guide to getting over those times when they're worried about who's more popular, who looks better, or whether they're "good enough" to do anything.

As a parent, this book is the perfect accompaniment to your personal guidance and influence over your daughter or granddaughter. Debra Beck isn't just a person shouting from the sidelines - she's a mentor for teenage girls and founder of Spirited Youth, an organization just for girls whose mission is to help them become empowered with a high dose of self-esteem.

As a mom of two daughters herself, Debra's reflection on the issue of low self esteem with the female teenage demographic is open and honest and genuine in how it helps you face the challenge of getting your daughter to embrace the positive influence you provide.

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Self Esteem and the Teenage Girl

As you saw above, Dove has launched a self esteem campaign. The video showcases various snippets of news broadcasts around the world explaining how little children are learning how to hate their body (or other aspects about themselves) from a frighteningly young age.

What self esteem issues are young girls facing today?

Debra Beck knows there are many - and she's trying to help parents educate their children and prevent this mindset from taking root in the early years.

Very young girls start out making simple comments such as, "I hate my freckles." Why do they do it? Someone may have mentioned it at school and caused your daughter to feel "different" from the other girls.

As she grows older, your daughter may struggle with more serious self esteem issues - such as peer pressure to take part in harmful activities, not having the same body as the other girls, or not possessing the outgoing personality that makes young men line up at the door to ask for a date.

Popular or not, most young girls go through a very similar process of doubting themselves and wishing they were better than who they are now. Low self esteem is a universal plague that eats away at our youth

It can be a painful experience and feel like it's the end of the world, and young girls need help - the kind of help found in My Feet Aren't Ugly - to understand that what they're going through is normal and that they are valued members of our society.

About the Book

Do you sometimes feel like other girls are prettier, more trendy, or more popular than you? Do you ever feel bad about yourself?

In this funny, honest book, teen expert and mentor Debra Beck provides in-depth examples and exercises to develop the tools you need for self-confidence. Learn how to have fulfilling relationships, make good decisions for yourself, respect yourself and others, and love yourself for who you are.

Buy the book from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or Borders.

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Moms and Grandmothers - Set a Good Self Esteem Example!

How can you help? What can you do?

First, before you give your daughter or granddaughter a copy of Debra Beck's My Feet Aren't Ugly, read it yourself.

Discover what today's young girls are enduring so that you can openly talk to your little girl about her trials and tribulations. Then, start setting a good example - be conscious of your own self esteem demons.

You may not realize it, but whenever you make an off-the-cuff remark about being "too fat" or "too old looking," your daughter absorbs that comment and applies your way of thinking to herself.

You can tell her until the cows come home that she's beautiful and perfect, but your own mom thinks that about you, too - yet you are critical about yourself, right? The same thing happens with tweens and teens suffering from low self esteem.

You want to become a role model for your daughter or granddaughter to show her what a strong, confident woman looks like. By "looks," I don't mean physical appearance - unless you're talking about the happy smile you plaster on your face because you feel good about who you are.

I'm talking about the kind of woman who accepts her imperfections and realizes that appearances or opinions of others don't determine who or what we are in life.

A confident women will instill in her daughter that she is the one who sets her own path and carves her place out in history on her terms, not that of her peers.

Read the book.

And then talk to her after she's read it, too!

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This short video needs to be seen by all people. It's been seen by over 1.5 million people so far.

Show it to your daughter, or granddaughter, and make sure they understand that this is how supermodels are made.

Show her this video, then get her a copy of 'My Feet Aren't Ugly'.

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