Today’s girls truly have a different view of what is ordinary.  They are bombarded with tv, movies, and the Internet giving them a much different view point than most of us had at their age.  Young girls think that “normal” is being like Hannah Montana, when she isn’t even real anyway.  I’m not slamming Hannah Montana, but let’s face it she is really Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana is a character on a television show, but so many of our young girls are trying to be HER!

So, who is your daughter’s role model?  Do you encourage her to find someone real?  Do you talk with her about the qualities she looks for in a role model?  Are any of those qualities things that you’d hope she were looking for?

Find the time to sit down and talk to your daughter about choosing a role model, then watch as she goes about looking up to others.  A recent conversation I had involved a mom of a 12 year old girl who had been looking up to a girl in her church who was about six years older than her.  The older girl had just gone off to college and let’s just say that she wasn’t living the way she had been at home, or what she had been taught at church.

Now, the mom of the twelve year old struggles to know how to deal with her daughter’s disappointment as well as wondering if her daughter will think that the way this girl turned out will that affect her daughter and the choices she chooses to maker in her future.

It is definitely something to think about, are you a part of what your daughter is looking for?  Do you know who her role model is?  Talk to her!

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