The Problem
With Perfection: There's a thin line between wanting to
look pretty and becoming obsessed with perfection
“South Korean Photographer Shows Costs Of
Plastic Surgery”, “South Korea's obsession with plastic surgery”“Redshirting in the Age of Academic Kindergarten: Should You Hold Your Child Back?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-day/redshirting-in-the-age-of-academic-kindergarten_b_3710561.html
“‘Redshirting’ Kindergarten-Age Kids Can Lead to Regrets” http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/redshirting-kindergarten-age-kids-can-lead-to-regrets/?_r=0
“Veteran Star Helps Shine Light On Elder Abuse” http://www.npr.org/2011/03/08/134363396/Veteran-Star-Helps-Shine-Light-On-Elder-Abuse
http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2013/05/30/32026/south-korea-s-obsession-with-plastic-surgery/
“Stories about eating disorders”
http://www.npr.org/tags/141716010/eating-disorders
These are things that our kids have to see and
witnessed as part of the privilege of living in a “first world” country, these
are the issues our children are going to have to deal with in the future.
We have 9 year old girls who are super obese, and we
have 9 year old girls who panic about being called fat even though they are
not. We have kids obsessed with how they look in order to secure a better
future. We are holding little boys back a year because we want them to “have
dates and be a leader”. We treat our elderly with disdain instead of valuing
their wisdom and experience. There are people in other countries who are
struggling to get one meal a day and yet we waste food like nobody’s business
When does it become too much?
What message do we want to send our kids? What
legacy do we want to leave them? Being a kid is not supposed to be this
complicated, so let us not make it so.
Dr
Flavius A B Akerele III
The
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