Generation Diva

Georgie loves looking through fashion magazines and can’t pass a mirror without checking to see if she’s put on weight. She’s got 20 kinds of lip gloss and a closet chock full of expensive clothes, shoes, and handbags. In fact, she’s already saving up for enhancement surgery, reports Diana Appleyard of the Daily Mail.

But here’s the catch: Georgie is just 10 years old.

Newsweek calls girls like Georgie “Generation Diva.” They are tween girls who are becoming obsessed with hair, make-up, clothing, and body image at earlier and earlier ages. “Forget having mom trim your bangs, fourth graders are in the market for lush $50 haircuts,” writes Newsweek columnist Jessica Bennett.

Once they hit high school, $150 highlights will be the norm. Meanwhile, Bennett writes, “five year olds have spa days and pedicure parties.” And teens “get laser hair removal, the most common cosmetic procedure of that age group.”

According to market research, if the trends continue, by the time today’s 10-year-old turns 50, she’ll have spent almost $450,000 on hair, makeup, elective surgeries, manicures, and pedicures.

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Taming Tween Divas

I have included this article in The Christian Mother series as a warning.

We live in a culture that foolishly worships materialism. This must be rejected by Christians .

Christian Mothers definitely cannot afford to NOT possess discernment.

If we teach our children to worship the god of materialism today--how, oh how will they ever learn to worship the true and living God tomorrow?

"She watches over the affairs of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness." Proverbs 31:27

This begins at home---what are you, Mother, teaching your children?

Are they more concerned about their comforts and where their next form of entertainment is coming from or are they about the Lord's work?

Who are their role models?

Who are they imitating/dressing like?

Who do they desire to be?

How do they spend their free time?

What is the music they are listening to? What does it promote?

What do the singers themselves promote? (sex, lust, anger, materialism, etc.)

What we allow today in the name of 'fun' can hinder, influence and mold their lives later in a disastrous way.

Are we Kingdom-minded or Worldly-minded?



Mothers, take a good look around...



And YOU be the judge.







(The Christian Mother Series, Part 6)

Note: Special thanks to Norma Garcia who sent me this article.