'Body confidence on the curriculum' petiton

busiscoming2

Have jsut watched How to look good naked. They have a campaign going to pettion the government to put a lesson dedicated to 'body confidence' on the national curriculum.
You can read more about it here: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-look-good-naked/articles/help-gok-get-body-confidence-on-the-curriculum


and then sign the petiton if you agree.

suseb_99

I just signed it.. I think it's a great idea.. I don't particularly want my daughter growing up with the same amount of media pressure we have had to put up with..

lexuslass

Too right... I have just signed it too... my 10 year old is very insecure about her body... she's as thin as a rake tho, but it just goes to show how much public pressure affects young girls (and boys!) regardless of whether they are fat/thin/short/tall!!!

have added it to my facebook page too as I am sure many of my friends will do this!

busiscoming2

Glad you have signed. I added it to FB too. Perhaps the next generation wont be so hung up on how they look.

Couldn't believe the 13 year old in the programme was following a weight watchers diet - she didn't even look big!! Quite worrying.

lostinrates

I've been thinking little about this, and I do think its important BUT, I wonder if the emphasis is right here. surely the way to tackle a lack of confidence in bodies is to remember they are the vehicles for ''us'' not us themsleves, and that the emphasis should be on making us better: more emphasis on being kind, successful, good people.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Going to be impossible to make kids feel good about themselves...too much time is given over by the media (govt included) about how terrible it is to be fat. DD2 was told in reception that fish is really bad for you because it's high in fat, cheese was bad, potatoes were bad, the only things that were good were the things sold in the canteen...mostly pizza and flapjacks. DD1 weighed about 2 stone at the time, and it took ages for her to not feel anxious about eating 'bad' food. She only weighs about 4 now, but she still gets told off for asking for more food in the dinner hall. It's not as if she needs to lose weight, and a portion for a 4 year old is hardly going to be enough for even a small 10 year old,

Toothsmith

Strikes me as something someone thought was a good idea, but didn't think through.

I would sooner kids came out of school knowing how to read, add up and a rough idea that D Day was some time after Henry VII.

**Juice**

TBH I think it getting on the curriculum is pretty unlikely and I can't see that it'll make masses of difference - especially when supposedly, kids are being influenced by this stuff in early primary school.

chika

For goodness sake, don't they think teachers have enough to deal with without adding token self confidence lessons. How could it possibly be taught as a curriculum subject, we are teacher's not councillors. This sort of thing is the responsibility of parents. That is all!

vixarooni

Although this is a good idea in theory, no one including my mother could persuade me in my teenage years that i looked "good" and i wasnt too fat and i wasnt cool enough or liked enough ect. I actually think this could cause more harm actually! if i had to sit in a class full of girls and boys i think i would find it torture thinking that they are thinking all of that relates to me.

Im afriad body confidence is something that comes with age, its not all about what the media portray, its looking at the girls around you and thinking why arent i as pretty as they are. I remember writing in my diary that i must have done something bad in my life to be so ugly when i was about 15. Im 23 now and im only just starting to be ok with myself, so i dont think one lesson a week is going to change much.

Emzycal

At first,I thought ''hey,great idea!''.
But,thinking it through,why?
Kids are coming out of schools barely able to write their names or add and subtract! EDUCATION is poor as it is,without giving schools jobs that should belong to the PARENTS.