Your Sneaking Suspicions? Student handbook

THE BEAUTY MYTH

My role models

What they are famous for

‘That’s just something ugly people say’ (Jim Carey in Liar Liar in response to his son ' s question 'Isn't real beauty on the inside?')1

What things tell us that our society is obsessed with image and having the right ‘look’?

‘It’s possible to have such an unhealthy emphasis on our outside appearance that the inside wastes away.’ (page 23)

Describe a healthy attitude to our outside appearance. Character

How do you react to the author’s opinion about the danger of an overemphasis on appearance?

Character

v ‘the look’

Image and ‘the look’

It was reported in Who Magazine that in June 2004 just after her high school graduation, Mary Kate Olsen was committed to a treatment centre.

Increasingly thin and clearly unhealthy, Mary Kate appears to share a common problem for young people – an eating disorder. 'They finally reached the point where they had to act. They didn't want to find her dead on the floor from not eating.'

(Who magazine)2

Costs of the body beautiful (pages 24–28)

THE of

God's picture of life, us, and his kingdom

Write down the 'big picture' messages these Bible passages have for us.

Psalm 139:13–16

Matthew 6:19–24

My life Thinking big, not small

Proverbs 31:30

What Tiffany discovered

(Read pages 21–22 and 28–29). What things did Tiffany feel she had learnt through her experiences?

What do you think about Jesus' advice to 'seek his kingdom'?