Why I praise my girls beauty even though experts say not to
Commenting on little girls appearance just sets them up for dieting, eating disorders and Botox, right? I believed this deep down in my core and made it a strict policy until it backfired. Illustration: Gillian Wilson
My firstborn daughter, Adelaide, never paid much attention to her appearance. She didn’t like dressing up or letting me brush her hair, let alone style it in a reasonable way. She
hated trying on clothes and had no interest in
toddler sunglasses no matter how cool they looked on her.
She’s precocious and loves to make people laugh with her funny faces and voices. She’s tiny but her personality is larger than life she seemed to ooze confidence. So, taking a page out of the feminist playbook, I took pride in the fact that I hardly