Recently I’ve had a few different people make a similar comment to me (including my mom) that has made me stop and think.
Several people have said to me, “soon we’ll have to stop telling Fiona she’s pretty”. Really? Do we? They say that if we keep telling her that she’ll grow up thinking that’s important and that she’s somehow better then everyone else. Really? Will she?
What if along with that we teach her that everyone is beautiful and that beauty looks many different ways and comes in many different forms. What if we teach her that she is pretty and to be proud of herself and what she looks like and who she is. Why does this have to be negative?
Wouldn’t we be falling into the media and society driven trap of beauty ourselves by avoiding telling her that she’s beautiful?
I may change my mind in the future – I reserve that right – but for now ,and from the first time I was told that, my gut and my heart tells me that it’s the right thing to do.
I want her to grow up knowing that her mom thinks she is beautiful and precious. Because she is.
