Comments on: We Are More Than Beautiful!

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Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:59:34 +0000

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Set entirely in Ireland, Holly has recently lost her husband to an unforseen brain tumor. In the course of a year, she recieved letters written by Gerry, that he had written before he passed away. These letters help give Holly the strength to get back …

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by: Amita

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:01:57 +0000

Hi Joy…I was just talking to my teenage son, who at 16 felt the need to ’shave’ because, most teenage boys in America are shaving! We live in Bangalore, India, and my children, 13 and 16, are half Indian, and half English…’beautiful’ as defined by society. I pointed out to my children that it saddens (and maddens) me to see so many products, especially the whitening creams, endorsed by ‘fair’ women, creating such poor self esteem among the dark skinned girls and women, desperate to become fair and lovely! Products like ‘Fair and Lovely’ need to be banned!
Amita

by: Joy

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:22:17 +0000

I’m thrilled that a book like this is written and published.I teach in India and am really disturbed at the low self confidence among most of my girl students.I’ll certainly recommend this book to our library too.
If you have any plans of extending your work to other countries and cultures,do let me know.I’d love to be a part of this campaign.
Cheers
Joy

by: Em

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:54:40 +0000

Beauty comes in all colors, shapes, sizes, abilities, ages… It’s about time someone tried to shatter (or at least make a dent in) the media’s distorted images of beauty. There are too many beautiful young girls out there wasting precious time and energy trying to attain the unattainable.

by: Nancy

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:50:08 +0000

I am so glad to see a book regarding this issue. I teach in a public high school and it is amazing the pressure these girls put on themselves to be “perfect”. Also, in response to Janice I too just recently have had a masectomy and am starting chemo. It was very inspirational and made me think that no matter what these live saving treatments may do to my outside appearance, I will still be the same on the inside. I am going to get your book not only for me but for my daughter and students as well. Thanks for passionately caring about this issue.

by: Janice

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:18:13 +0000

As a teacher, I am amazed at how the youngest girls have already internalized the “lie.” I may be 5′10′’ and on the thin size, but my thin hair, broken nose and uneven-reconstructed breast (masectomy 18 years ago) leave me quite out of the beautiful-lie. And as I hit 41, and the wrinkles begin, I just get farther from it. But what my masectomy taught me was the truth about looks and beauty. Our appearance is temporal ( they can be amputated, scarred, sagged, and wrinkled). Our beauty, however, is eternal. This is where we need to put our time and efforts. Thank-you for writing a book and trying to correct the misrepresentations.

by: Karen

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:36:35 +0000

I really appreciate the message here and agree, but I also think there’s a balance to be had between having fun with makeup and cosmetics, and taking things too seriously. Makeup and cosmetics in general can be a great way for girls to express themselves and their individuality.

by: Ede

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:59:16 +0000

I’m out to buy three copies one for each of us! I have two teenage girls and this is something we have talked about their entire lives. In fact, my girls happen to be very “pretty” as defined by society, they are half Navajo and half Anglo and quite striking to most people. From the moment they were born people would comment to them and to me. My first response would always be, “they are more beautiful on the inside and it radiates in who they are.” My girls heard this their whole lives and know it, believe it and live it. At 14 and 16 they TRULY understand that beauty has NOTHING to do with what you look like and EVERYTHING to do with how you feel and your attitude toward youself and the rest of the world. I am proud to be their mom. Now is the time I truly have to keep reminding them of that as advertisers, peer pressure and society does everything in its power to prove this lifetime of learning wrong. Sometimes, I think we need to help change the “beholder” as well as our own understanding of ourselves.

by: Ellen C. Braun

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:21:12 +0000

Hi Natalie- the links at the top are sponsored by Google, and I don’t have control over them; however I will contact them and tell them which keywords ought to be targeted on this page for those ads! Thanks for bringing that up- ECB

by: Natalie Mollett

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:38:10 +0000

I really appreciate articles like these, this is one of the few blogs I follow. However I am amazed and disturbed that at the top of the page, one of the advertising links is for a dating services for young teens!! I would suggest it is not appropriate for this site. Natalie.

by: Lisa

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:51:31 +0000

What a LOVELY article… pun intended! Thank you for sharing this important message.

My daughter Lily is only 4.5, but I’m going to buy this book now for both of us to read together! Thank you for sharing this terrific book with us!

Lisa, mom of Lily 4.5 and Deacon 2.5