The Estevan Public Library is hosting a Tween Love Yourself Sleepover.
Tweenage girls (Grades 6-8) are invited to join the library children’s program co-ordintor Christine Batke on Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
The night promises to have many highlights and interesting activities. The fun will begin as soon as participants set up their bedding.
“We start with swimming, just because it is really fun. We start the event and if girls are coming in probably not knowing each other it’s a little bit more casual, they don’t feel like they have to be thrown into an event where they have to discuss a bunch of personal things right away,” Batke said.
Feb. 9 is International Pizza Day, so girls will enjoy pizzas donated to the library by one of the local restaurants. And right after supper they will dive into serious stuff.
“We do a lot of self-esteem building. We talk about self-esteem and media, and representation of females… Last year we built a little self-esteem board where you make a little portrait of yourself and you list things that you are good at and post things about yourself,” Batke said.
Batke explained that often tweenage girls are still easy to influence and with that a lot of times they get low self-esteem, or they are being impacted by the community and start building on themselves and their personality.
“It’s really important to have that positive impact. And we have a really good group building environment and a safe place for them to reflect on that,” Batke noted.
Girls will do a several different self-esteem building activities through the night. And of course, it’s impossible to imagine a sleepover without chick flicks. They will get to choose movies and watch them until they fall asleep.
A library volunteer will help Batke with the evening and morning activities. Girls will sleep in two programming rooms, which will allow every participant to follow their own sleeping schedule and enjoy movies as much as they want within reasonable time limits.
The registration for the Sleepover will open in the beginning of February. Space is limited.
This sleepover will be the third one organized by the Estevan library. So far, all of them were girls-only events.
