How To Teach Your
Teenager
About
Grooming
Inculcating proper grooming in your children
and teenagers can help lead to lifelong
good habits. HEALTH meets an expert who
explains how this can be done.
The Basics
The process of teaching your
child proper grooming habits
starts right after they are born
and will endure for many years.
The amount of time spent helping
to teach your child about proper
grooming will depend on several
key things that include the child’s
age, skill level and interest.
According to Aesthetic Specialist
Mona Syed Mirza, grooming in
children is basically about teaching
children good hygiene habits and
something very worthwhile. “Aside
from keeping up appearances
and not offending others, it’s
important for children to learn
lifelong habits of good hygiene to
keep them healthy and prevent the
spread of common illnesses,” she
explains. “Also teach children to
take pride in their appearance by
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praising how smart they look, and
how fresh they smell after a bath”.
Essentially, grooming and hygiene
are interlinked; for example, hair
should be washed regularly in
order to remove a build-up of dirt
and germs to maintain cleanliness.
Regular brushing and combing,
she adds, combats dirt and helps
in maintaining a smart appearance.
Paving the
Way for Good Habits
Grooming and personal hygiene
are interlinked. Teens of today,
tells Syed-Mirza, are more aware
of “how they appear” to the
outside world and in fact, groomed
individuals are more likely to
have higher self-esteem and are
generally more confident as a
result of being more acceptable
by societal norms. “A teen is more
likely to get a summer job if he
or she looks presentable and in
fact, turning up to a summer job
interview with an unkempt look
will not add to your credibility,”
she points out. “When grooming
habits become a habit at an early
age, they generally tend to stay till
you are an adult.”