Starting young

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It's hard to write blogs when you are upset because I want all of my blogs to be happy and chipper and a breath of fresh air!

I have been quite busy lately with my part time job and other things going on in between that I barely have any down time.

I wanted to make my Friday blog posts feminist related, so, for last Friday that I missed, I wanted to take time to talk about a great article I read called How to Talk to Little Girls by Lisa Bloom.

I have now made it an effort whenever little girls come into the pet store that I work at, to not talk to them about appearances. We all know how much the pressures of our culture affect girls when it comes to how to look and how to act; rarely do we focus on intelligence and self esteem.




But it is OH SO EASY to start a conversation off with, "I love your dress!" I caught myself today almost starting a conversation with a girl by asking her about the feathers in their hair. So I stopped myself. Instead, I asked them (in a normal voice; I have no idea why people talk to 5 year olds like they are babies; their parents and teachers don't talk to them like that, so why should you?) "What is your dogs name?" from there, I learned that she was interested in different kinds of dog breeds and told me what her favorite breed is a Pug, and all sorts of facts about dogs.




Let's encourage our young girls to be smart and not worry so much about what kind of nail polish she has on. We can talk about that later when they're older in the club being fabulous because she can work it since she has that positive intelligence confidence.

My favorite suggestion from this article?
Ask her what book she is currently reading, or what her favorite book is.

Here is the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-little-gir_b_882510.html

Hope everyone had a great weekend!
xoxo
djg