Challenge of A Christian Teen

I believe the biggest challenge I have faced as a Christian teen is the media's focus on the female's fashion styles and beauty images. The media has portrayed women, who are mostly slim and have hourglass shapes in very sexual outfits. When young teens see these images in movies, blogs, websites, music videos, t.v. shows, and commercials, these images stay in their minds. Males tend to compare regular young teenage ladies to these images stained in their minds. When us, girls don't fit their high standards based on models and such, we feel inadequate. To make us feel important and loved we then resort to dressing innapropriately with short shorts and skirts, tight jeans, low-cut shirts, and flirt extra-hard to get the boys' attention. Other girls give up. They think they are not good enough so they say, "why stay in a fight I know I will loose?" Some of them choose suicide. 

Many young ladies have low self esteem issues because of the lack of attention or because they feel less attractive than another girls. I'm saying this from my own experience. I had low-self esteem issues, I thought I was not good enough. Guys didn't flock to me trying to get my number. I thought I wasn't beautiful. Then I realized. I am beautiful, because God made me beautiful and my parents say I'm beautiful. I have been created in his image. No one can tell me otherwise.

I have a burning passion and desire to help young girls like myself to learn to love and cherish themselves. When they have a healthy love for themselves they will respect themselves. In respecting themselves they will not tolerate others being disrespectful to them. They will not allow others to talk down to them or others because they are Children of God. They will not allow others to touch them innapropriately because they are a Child of the Most High. They will not permit rude language to be spoken around them because they are a Child of the King.