LibraryScenariosHow to talk to teens about digital beauty standards
Scenario

How to talk to teens about digital beauty standards

My teenager shows me influencers with perfect skin and asks why she cannot look like that and I do not know how to explain filters when I sometimes forget they exist too.

Laozi
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You are confronting your own susceptibility to digital illusions while trying to protect someone else from the same deceptions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Instagram and comparison culture?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.