Boarding Schools for Girls

Two Ohio Girl Scouts, Raychel Santo and Kylie Bushroe, have created a program aimed at helping preteens develop healthy self-esteem and resist peer pressure and other unhealthy influences that can lead to problems such as depression and eating disorders. Dayton Daily News writer Brittney Hunn featured the two scouts in a June 11 article:

Having first-hand experience of junior high and high school pressures such as violence, eating disorders, cliques and depression, [Santo and Bushroe] came up with an idea to spread the word of self awareness.

The Scouts have put together a workshop promoting girls to "Be Youtiful" in efforts to gain a Gold Award, the highest achievement a 15- to 17-year-old Girl Scout can earn. The workshop is meant to prevent low self-esteem in preteen girls from sixth to eighth grade.

Self-esteem issues in teen girls are very common. How teens feel about themselves is reflected in their actions. If they have high self-esteem, they tend to act independently, assume responsibility, attempt new tasks and can handle different emotions. Those who have low self-esteem tend to avoid new things, put down their talents, blame others for shortcomings and are easily influenced, according to the Child Development Institute.

The girls' first workshop was scheduled for June 14 at the Bellbrook SugarCreek Community Center in Dayton, Ohio.

Labels: self-esteem, peer_pressure, ohio

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