Image Gap
This activity guide encourages Guides to become aware of their own self-esteem and self-image "problems" and to apply a problem-solving approach to examples of negative self-image.

Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
Using this activity guide, Guides will examine the media's role in perpetuating stereotypes and how living up to stereotypes can lead to abuse and violence against ourselves and others.

Mirror Image
Guides are encouraged to reflect on how they feel about their bodies and to address media pressures to be thin and the issue of smoking as a form of weight control.

Hollywood beauty was once skin deep: Now it's bone thin
Using this article as a discussion starter talk about how the ideal body shape on TV and in movies has become thinner over the years. Using fashion magazines, trace how the media industries have been promoting this impossibly thin ideal over the past few years.

Create a "Best" and "Worst" Advertising Gallery:
the Kellogg's Special K and About-Face Web sites post advertisements that promote positive images of women and children as well ads that use demeaning or objectifying images of girls and women. Create your own gallery of ads that promote both healthy and unhealthy body image.

Take Action on Advertising and Marketing
It’s important to recognize positive advertising campaigns that promote healthy body image. Kelloggs Special K ads are a good example of an unusual campaign that attacks the fashion industry obsession with thinness. Send letters of praise to companies that use non-stereotyped media images in their marketing.