Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection Why are we raising our girls to be perfect while we are raising our boys to be brave? Two TED talks, one by Reshma Saujani and the other by Caroline Paul, try to tell their audiences to be aware of teaching and training girls and provide solutions to the problem of girls’ fear of taking risks. Boys are taught to take risk after risk, to play rough, and to be brave. Girls, on the other hand, are taught to smile pretty, play it safe, and get all A’s, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of girls to take risks and learn to program. Within her TED talk, Reshma Saujani begins to talk about herself that she has done something brave for the first time in her life when she was 33years old, and she also informs her audience about the negative effects of certain gender roles as well as to encourage her audience to build the confidence for a new generation of girls and women. On the contrary, Caroline Paul raises confident girls with stories and advice from paragliding, firefighter, and all other adventures that she had in her life.
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She felt a little bit fear, however, she said, “I felt so many other things, too: exhilaration and confidence, and I knew how great it was going to be a thousand feet in the air. Bravery is learned like anything learned it just needs to be practiced.” She also encourages people to teach girls how to face with physical risks without any fear. For instance, she tells the crowd in TED talk that we have to teach girls to climb trees and to skateboard.
In my opinion, Caroline exaggerates about avoiding to tell girls that there is going to be a dangerous situation if we try to talk cautiously with them. Moreover, she encourages to tell girls to try different physical activities that might have bad effects on their health, it is also risky. On the contrary, Saujani encourages girls to have more self-confidence and tell them that they do not need to be
She felt a little bit fear, however, she said, “I felt so many other things, too: exhilaration and confidence, and I knew how great it was going to be a thousand feet in the air. Bravery is learned like anything learned it just needs to be practiced.” She also encourages people to teach girls how to face with physical risks without any fear. For instance, she tells the crowd in TED talk that we have to teach girls to climb trees and to skateboard.
In my opinion, Caroline exaggerates about avoiding to tell girls that there is going to be a dangerous situation if we try to talk cautiously with them. Moreover, she encourages to tell girls to try different physical activities that might have bad effects on their health, it is also risky. On the contrary, Saujani encourages girls to have more self-confidence and tell them that they do not need to be