Messages About Me, Sydney's Story : A Girl's Journey to Healthy Body Image - Dina Alexander

Messages About Me, Sydney's Story

A Girl's Journey to Healthy Body Image

By: Dina Alexander, Kyle Roberts, Jera Mehrdad (Illustrator)

Paperback | 26 September 2017

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We live in a great big world where we receive and send messages every day. Some of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. Join Sydney on her journey as she first struggle and then--with the help of parents and friends--comes to understand that she is happy to be herself and is truly beautiful the way she is.This fun, extremely relatable story helps kids see they are not alone in feeling confused and sometimes bombarded by "messages" all around them.


Our kids receive hundreds, possibly thousands of messages every day from friends, family members, acquaintances, advertisements, social media, TV, and elsewhere. So many of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. It is so important for us to teach our kids to filter out negative messages and develop a healthy body image. And that is the purpose of Sydney's Story!


Written by parents and professionals who have struggled with body image issues themselves and understand the magnitude of cultural, familial and media messaging, Sydney's Story is a great way to combat the barrage of negative messages continually saturating our kids.


Be sure to read Messages About Me more than once with your child and check out the highly useful workbook section at the end of the story. With meaningful discussion questions, activities, and tips, it provides parents and teachers ample opportunities to teach and reinforce positive body image practices. These resources focus on messages we receive from peers, adults and media, how to combat unhealthy messages, and how to develop a truly healthy body image.


Parents can pick and choose from various discussion questions, reread the books during different phases of life and engage in other important discussions when their child is ready.

Helpful Features for Parents and Teachers include:

â¢Conversation starters 

â¢Workbook questions 

â¢Simple, meaningful activities


Also available in ebook format.


Feel free to check out Messages about Me for boys, Wade's Story: A Quest for Healthy Body Image. For free lessons and helpful resources look for us online, Educate and Empower Kids.


Industry Reviews

"Loved the way the author speaks from a preteen perspective, the illustrations taking her through the various messages we hear daily and peer pressure and how to come against it in order to be true to who you are."--G. Mercer


"Can't give this book at its message enough love and support!!! Every one needs this in their homes!!! I love how simple and true this message is! Priceless."--Chalese Hall


"I am so excited about a book for children that educates about the harmful messages from the media. I haven't read the whole book yet but will be ordering it for my daughter. Regardless of how we look, or how we perceive ourselves, we need to teach our children that they can feel good about their bodies and themselves because they are much more than their 'appearance.' Confidence doesn't come from the outside, it comes from the inside--loving and accepting ourselves for who we are, and rejecting what the media deems to be 'beautiful.' We are bombarded with messages from ads, TV, social media all telling us that we aren't good enough, and that to be happy with ourselves we need to look a certain way. I am excited that this book will open the door to these important conversations."--Kari L. Nash

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