The recent reporting of the mother who allowed her eight year-old daughter to receive Botox, had me to question if our desire to be become physically perfect has caused us to pay a high price. I have always instilled in my daughter that inner beauty is what remains important. I raised her to realize that self confidence and self worth is what ultimately matters.
It concerns me as a woman that our young girls are growing up with the idea that physical beauty is what holds their worth. I question if we have become so beauty driven that we have become a careless society especially when it comes to pressuring young girls to be perfect. I don’t believe at the age of eight, that I understood what wrinkles, laugh lines, or crows feet were.
I am sure that when many of us heard of this, we could not believe that a mother would give in to a request like that. But, I ask you as I have asked myself, is out quest for beauty costing us a hefty price? Can we teach our children that beauty that lies beyond the depth of what is physically seen is just as important? Just a little food for thought.
