I feel like my parents walked this line pretty well, but i still ended up with a shit ton of insecurity and issues related to body dysmorphia and my appearance, in general. I’m not sure even the most well thought out parenting plan of attack on this subject can really subvert what society and the media are just gonna…

My 6 year old has already started talking about how she doesn’t like how she looks. I don’t know what to do about this. I’ve always tried not to emphasize appearances, but that doesn’t seem to have helped. I think this all stems from people telling her that she looks like her dad while they say her sister looks like…

I totally disagree with Julia Baird. Your parents are supposed to be a soft place to land. “Telling it like it is” will hurt that child and harm their self esteem. So what if the child is unattractive, they’ll figure it out in the long run but they will come armed with parents who instilled in them solid confidence…

I look my cat in the eyes and tell her “I love you, fatty.” And she feels like a queen when I do it.

I don’t have kids, but I’d say your wife is on the right track. Learning to exercise and be fit for good health will benefit her most in the long-run (like, we’re talking life-long, not just so she’ll be popular in school). If you think that what your wife says about being healthy isn’t sinking in or she isn’t being…

Don’t Milhouse your Kids, people.

Eh, I disagree. I think it’s fine, and good, to tell your kids they’re beautiful, and to mean it both inside and out. This post from Girl’s Gone Child goes into it better than I could:

My mom spent far more time nurturing my talents and education than my beauty. It’s why I have a personality now.

lol this is so true. My elder brother got married recently, and we just received all the wedding photos of our family. My grandmother and I were looking through them, and she said, in all seriousness, that she has such a good looking family. I smiled, yes that’s nice, we had all cleaned up well and were dressed nicely…

I have to deal with this issue all the time. My child* is extremely handsome and I tell him this every day. But I sense he is becoming arrogant from the prideful expression on his face. And some say he is spoiled since I let him jump on the table all the time.

I tell my dog that she’s the prettiest lady in all the land every single day. But only because it’s true!

I'm fine with people telling their kids they're beautiful as long as it's not just the girls getting this treatment. Kids definitely notice when the girls are largely complimented with "pretty" or "nice" while boys are complimented with "smart" or "brave".

Call all kids beautiful so that the word ceases to mean what it once did, and grows to mean something more akin to “YOU MATTER AND HAVE WORTH”.

If they’re in fact ready for the runway at 5, no need to tell them that.

Bubbles from TPB is tied with Bubbles from “The Wire” as my favorite television character of all time.

My depression only got diagnosed in NYC, I definitely had it before I got here. Living and working here made it bad enough for me to end up getting treatment whether I wanted to or not, and consequently saving my life. So I will say the stress of living here on top of the depression I let go untreated for more than a…

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If you can get depression there, you can get depression anywhere.