A Mighty Girl Yesterday at 7:21pm · A poignant post from writer Allison Slater Tate about her desire to raise her young daughter, who looks just like her, without the same insecurities about her physical appearance that plagued her since childhood: How do I raise my baby girl to love -- or, at the very least, not to hate -- the same features I have picked apart for so long? Perhaps there is no surefire way to vaccinate a girl against insecurity about her physical appearance, but I have to try. Part of that effort, I know, will mean finally letting myself off the hook: not only learning to embrace myself and all my imperfections as enough, but also forgiving myself for the emotional abuse I have engaged in against my body for most of my life. So much of the time, people talk about what motherhood might take away from you: your time, your body, your sleep, your patience. It might very well take desperately loving my daughter -- every part of her, including the reflections of me -- to give myself something important: acceptance. Maybe some of it could rub off on her. I have been, as we often are, my own worst critic. My challenge is to teach my daughter to be her own champion instead. My job is to let her know she is enough, even when in a certain moment she doesnt feel like it. She looks just like me. I need to see that as a blessing to her, not a curse. I am trying. If youre looking for advice on how to foster a positive body image in your daughter, this book is filled with helpful recommendations: 101 Ways To Help Your Daughter Love Her Body” at amightygirl/101-ways-to-help-your-daughter There is also a great parenting book for moms that addresses how to encourage a positive body image in your daughter when grappling with your own body image issues: “You’d Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies -- Even When We Don’t Love Our Own” at amightygirl/you-d-be-so-pretty-if For more recommended books for parents on body image issues, visit our Body Image / Self-Esteem parenting section at amightygirl/parenting?cat=448 For dozens of empowering books for girls that address body image issues, visit A Mighty Girls Body Image section at amightygirl/books/personal-development/life-challenges?cat=378 To read more from this writer, you can visit her blog at allisonslatertate/ or on Facebook at Allison Slater Tate, Writer
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:57:23 +0000
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