Art: What Girls Need

It's been awhile, but here are more notes from the girlology/boyology workshop from convention.

What Girls Need:

• Embrace the inner princes: dress up, feeling pretty, longing to be beautiful/irreplaceable. She looks to mom to see who she is. Princess play lets her experience & explore.
• Help her discover her talents. Let her try things even if she'll fail. Lover her regardless of the performance. 
• Avoid unfulfillable promises "You can do anything you want to do or be anyone you want to be!" Give sincere compliments
• Encourage a relationship with dad. We look to our parents for identity. Who do men say we are? Who does God say we are? Encourage common activities. Prompt dad for words of affirmation. Pick out gifts for dad to give. Physical touch - story time in dad's lap. Point out her dad's service to her and the family.
• Limit media use - unrealistic ads affect self-image
• Remind her of who God says she is

I'll try to post the Art of Boys next week!