- 70% of girls ages 15-17 are not bothering to participate in normal every day activities due to a lack of self-worth
- 92% of young girls in the USA want to change some aspect of their physical appearance
- 56% of seventh graders say they don't like the way they look
- Today's beauty ideas create appearance anxiety for 86.9% of all teenage girls.
- One-third of all girls in grades nine through 12 think they are overweight
- 60% of young girls are trying to loose weight.
- 6.6% of young boys reported taking steroids; more than two-thirds of boys started before they were age 16. Those at risk include boys who have been teased about being to fat or too short.
The boys at highest risk are those who base their self-esteem on how they look.
(Scout Research Institute, 2002-2004)
Danielle wrote this book to help kids learn to look inside to find the answers to their questions. The goal is to teach children to understand who they are meant to be and to celebrate the gift of being true to themselves.
"Tillie the tomato rolled around and around looking at the other vegetables on the ground. "I must become someone else... anyone but who I am. I must become another vegetable in this vegetable land.'"
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