I’m not sure whether any of my readers have adolescent girls, but we all know some, and you may find this interesting anyway.
Pluck, wax, peel – cleansing, removing, minimizing, smoothing – we’re talking about the beauty ritual many women go through regularly, right? Wrong! Many young girls, some even in the pre-teen or ‘tween’ years, are going to spas regularly with their mothers, and are having many of these things done to them. One mother interviewed said that she just views it as part of good hygiene!
As adults we can make our own decisions about what to do or not do with our bodies to ‘beautify’ them. But kids can’t make the same kind of informed decisions we do. When they’re pushed into this sort of thing too early, they may develop a false sense of themselves and their bodies…a distorted body image.
I found this link that discussess the full spa treatments for tweens I referred to above. This next one describes the extensive hair processing pre-teens often go through nowadays. Lastly, here’s a girls spa book that may be more appropriate for 9-14 year-olds than some of the ‘full service’ treatments.
I suppose these extensive and invasive spa treatments for young girls are a natural extension of the dieting that many girls do from a young age through adulthood and have been doing for many years. Whatever it is, it doesn’t feel right to me.
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Too young for spas?
I’m not sure whether any of my readers have adolescent girls, but we all know some, and you may find this interesting anyway.
Pluck, wax, peel – cleansing, removing, minimizing, smoothing – we’re talking about the beauty ritual many women go through regularly, right? Wrong! Many young girls, some even in the pre-teen or ‘tween’ years, are going to spas regularly with their mothers, and are having many of these things done to them. One mother interviewed said that she just views it as part of good hygiene!
As adults we can make our own decisions about what to do or not do with our bodies to ‘beautify’ them. But kids can’t make the same kind of informed decisions we do. When they’re pushed into this sort of thing too early, they may develop a false sense of themselves and their bodies…a distorted body image.
I found this link that discussess the full spa treatments for tweens I referred to above. This next one describes the extensive hair processing pre-teens often go through nowadays. Lastly, here’s a girls spa book that may be more appropriate for 9-14 year-olds than some of the ‘full service’ treatments.
I suppose these extensive and invasive spa treatments for young girls are a natural extension of the dieting that many girls do from a young age through adulthood and have been doing for many years. Whatever it is, it doesn’t feel right to me.