Find examples of self images on digital media and discuss with your kids
- Sit with your kid when they play a game and discuss the heroes' actions
- Watch a movie together and discuss how the characters look and what they do
- Correlate what you see online with real life examples
- Watch advertisements; observe how women and men are depicted. Discuss what you both think and feel when you come across such content. Find examples in popular commercials
- Speak about the human body and how we need to care for it
- Discuss the role of health, beauty and fitness; understand what your child considers as healthy, fit and beautiful and how s/he feels about his/her own beautiful body
- Discuss social influencers, celebrities and their impact; try to understand if your child is influenced by the images they see on media;
- Make your kids trust you and speak to you about what they like or dislike on what they see
- Discuss about negative or positive influence of the body images we see online