Sunday, 10 June 2012

Dear 16 year old Me




As a health writer I face the annual challenge of writing about skin cancer in a way that may actually have an impact – and I’m sure all the scary stats and human interest stories I’ve turned out over the years have never had anything like the effect of this moving youtube video – “Dear 16 year old me”.

My soon to be 16 years old daughter showed it to me and said she is seriously frightened about sunburn. Amazing! I have always laboured the sunscreen message – but this video has done what no nagging mum can achieve.

Please show it to anyone you know who is still behaving like a 16 year old in the sun.

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