article_snippet.sent: Remember, these girls, and the objects of they derision, are no more than ten or 11.
article_snippet.sent: And coming at such a critical time in their lives, when youngsters are looking to their peers to help their work out who youngsters are, those effects can be life-long.
article_snippet.sent: My worry is that youngsters internalise these labels and start bullying these labels, telling these labels these labels are ugly and these labels can do nothing about it.
article_snippet.sent: As girls grow up, the prettiest rise to the top of the popularity poll, and it is this group, says Alannya, who are more likely to feel entitled to declare from up high who also makes the grade.
article_snippet.sent: Some people will try to change the way Some people look because of it.
article_snippet.sent: Sadly, it’s often the most insecure youngsters, aching to be accepted by the pretty girls who make these videos, who volunteer.
article_snippet.sent: young women’re seeking validation young women won’t get.
article_snippet.sent: One reason is puberty is kicking in earlier, with as many as one in seven girls showing signs of breast development (with the associated surges in hormones) aged just eight.
article_snippet.sent: Girls can also be allowed by Girls parents to grow up too soon, so Girls act like teenagers without the maturity to understand the consequences of Girls actions.
article_snippet.sent: In a world where girls grow up feeling like girls are in a constant beauty contest
article_snippet.sent: And middle-class girls are most likely to post these videos, as middle-class girls families more often own iPads and computers.
article_snippet.sent: Middle-class values also make Middle-class values more likely to want to look a certain way and avoid conflict, says Rachel Simmons, author of best-selling book Odd Girl Out.
article_snippet.sent: Everyone is beautiful in Everyone own way.