…people invent crap like this: Home - Jezebel
For all you parents(-to-be) of girls. I just don’t know what to do sometimes, except make my daughter so confident and strong-willed that she won’t give a crap about this kind of stuff. Sure, it makes life harder for me, but I don’t want a sharmeeli, obedient, vapid little girl. The world isn’t safe for her.
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ridiculous!
for what its worth, i really think you have nothing to worry about- your little miss has a strong network of family supporting her and two awesome parents by her side masha'Allah. she's in good hands!
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^ LOL well she's anything but sharmeeli, obedient, and vapid. MashAllah :p
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I think we need to make girls emotionally strong and stable. I see the need to do that more and more as they girls are growing, are meeting more people and experiencing life where little little decisions are made...decisions like who should they listen to, who should they be friends with, etc.
We need to make sure they read a lot...I can't explain why but think it's connected to their self image; they need to have open communication with the parents, and develop strong faith in their deen.
Let's get to work mommies!
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I am appalled! This is disgusting. Why are people so unkind to others and more than that, why open yourself up such behaviour - why even post such a profile?
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geez.... just read that site. Really? i didnt know a site like that existed! how sad
U know what though, it doesnt just affect girls.... a lot of guys these days are facing similar issues
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^ As a teacher, I've heard of several sites like these popping up.
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oh my... so how can parents make their daughters be confident about themselves? what should they do?
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^ how about communicating with your kids about sites like these????
I'm making a list of such things to talk to my child about.......
no matter how strong willed a kid is....peer pressure can get to them.
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i'm pretty convinced the best thing to do is not to raise a girly girl. from what i have seen of girls in my family and other girls i have known since childhood, the ones that were tomboyish and had active childhoods have usually ended up with better self-worth, and made better life-choices than their peers. (of course, "better" is subjective - to me the word means good career choices, more involved in choosing a life partner, having genuine pursuits in life other than shopping or doing ones hair 10 different ways etc. )
all the self-restrictive "girliness" - obsessing over hair, skin, tan, makeup is bound to seep in anyway with adolescence, but at least as long as she's a child, i'd do my best to get the girl to do everything with me that i'd do with a boy child. and hopefully by the time she's a teen, she'd have been exposed to enough to know she isn't just what some lifeless idiot rants about on an anon website.