Ilana Wilesのインスタグラム(mommyshorts) - 8月7日 11時05分

When Mazzy was a baby, I remember reading that you weren’t supposed to tell your daughter that she is pretty. One reason being that focusing on looks can make a girl think that image is what is most important and all she has to offer. I’m not sure if that’s true (although the articles sited lots of research!) but nevertheless, over the years, I have mostly avoided making such statements to my girls. Then the other day I found myself thinking about my own insecurities and realized that I wasted so much of my young life wondering if I was attractive or not. I decided I should tell Mazzy how beautiful she is; not because I wanted her to focus on her looks, but because I didn’t want her to have any doubt and maybe that would free her up to focus on more important things. So, last night, while I was brushing her hair after a bath, I told her, “You know you are beautiful, right?” She gave me a weird look. “I mean, I just don’t want you ever to wonder.” She looked at me weirdly again. “Mom,” she said. “Everybody is beautiful.” And then I hugged her close and said, “Yes, you are right” and for a moment, I felt like, maybe, just maybe, focusing on appearance will one day seem as antiquated as I felt, telling my daughter she was beautiful when she didn’t even need to hear it. #lifewithdaughters

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