A day in the life of a teen girl continued...

The next day, your best friend is back with her guy, but your nude picture is now being passed around to everyone at school. Your friends are rating your breasts on their Facebook profiles. A few girls have status updates labeling you a whore. You wonder if you can transfer schools midyear and worry how you can keep your parents from finding out about the picture. You feel like your heads about to explode. The thought of cutting yourself to relieve the emotional pressure snakes through your thoughts. One of your friends says it works like magic, and she has the scars to prove it.

How are you feeling right now? Maybe you are incredulous. This can’t be reality, can it? Unfortunately, it is the reality many of our girls face, day in day out. Imagine how confused, overwhelmed, and unsure of themselves the world makes them feel.

How did our world get this crazy for our daughters? Garbage. Not the kind in our landfills, rather the kind that fills our hearts and minds. We have come to use the garbage of sex, violence, and celebrity worship to get people to buy things or to “buy into” things. How do we clean up the mess? It just takes three words: Honor the Girl.

Women create peace and solace when you honor and respect them for being the amazing, powerful people they are meant to be. Teach girls to respect themselves and you help them help the next generation learn to respect themselves and others. That will create calm communities that have more resources for solving big issues like economic woes, or finding solutions to helping the planet thrive.

The wonderful possibilities of where we go as human beings and the future of our planet depends on whether or not we learn to Honor the Girl. It’s that simple.