I think that creating youth resource centers can help resolve part of the issue that there is. Young males can be inspired by other young kids like them to speak up about how they really feel. Sometimes kids are scared to speak up because they will get judged but having that family sense near them won't make them feel to uncomfortable like that.
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For my action plan I plan to go to a elementary school and talk to the counselors. I plan to seek if they know or suspect of issues like young males giving signs of being into their perfect self image a lot. I also plan to take a further step into if the counselors do suspect that there is something going on, making a forum for the young kids to attend. At the forum I plan to show them how the media is only trying to make us all as oe and that it shouldn't be like that. I will try to show them ways to increasing their self esteem without driving them to the perfect body image idea.
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What i learned from my action plan I plan to take is that it won't be easy to address the issue to little kids. I think that little kids do not realize what the media is trying to do and thats why they fall under the influence right away. I think if kids were more aware of this they would not fall under the perfect body influence too quickly. the next steps is to carry out a forum for the kids.I learned that there might not be big changes because i will be doing my forum only at one school but if it turns successful I will do it in more schools to help the youth of today. from what i learned here I will use it to inspire me to not get easily manipulated by the media because that is all they are trying to do since they are full of advertisements directed to all ages, races, ethnicities and gender.
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