The complete list of all life-guiding messages for young people – click the titles for further information
Don’t wait for someone to recognise what you need: to perform to your full potential, your needs must be met. Find ways to get your needs met without sacrificing others’ needs in the process.
Recognise your rights and protect them. Believe you deserve to be treated with respect and dignity at all times. Stop apologising for everything.
Over half of the young people surveyed by ChildLine said they had received a sexual photo or video. Most received them from a partner but a third received them from a stranger.
40% of young people 13-18 in a ChildLine survey said they had created a sexual image or video of themselves, with about a quarter of all those questioned saying they had sent the image or video to someone else.
In a ChildLine survey of 13-18 year olds, 60% said they had been asked for a sexual image or video of themselves.
Understand that your rights, thoughts, feelings, needs and desires are just as important as everyone else’s – but remember they are not more important than anyone else’s.
The reactions you have to others gives you more information about yourself than about them – what you do and don’t accept about yourself.
Originality is beautiful. Big brown eyes, green eyes, blue eyes alike. Your natural skin tone is beautiful. Your hair color and your smile. Your voice, your laugh, and your personality. You are truly beautiful just the way you are!
Don’t look for people who will solve all your problems; look for those special few who will sit down and face them with you.
A size 14 in one shop might not be the same as a size 14 in another. Buy the size that fits you, not the size you want, because the bigger picture is that it will look better on you.