https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-little-gir_b_882510.html
Quite liked this article about having conversations with girls that value their brains rather than their looks.
ETA can someone explain to my how to make a link clicky? I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong or if my comp won't let me do it for some reason.
Re: Article about talking to girls
I've read this before, but I love it! I teach, and it made me more aware of things I might say to little girls.
clicky: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-little-gir_b_882510.html
Don't know - I copy/paste/push enter to get it clicky...
everyone who meets DD1 comments on her pretty curls. And yeah they're pretty, but I'm always so proud of how patient and co-operative she is in public, and she always keen to "talk" with the adults about everything that's going on, but no one comments on that. Sigh.
Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old
Yes! It the curls with us too. I actually worry this will give her a complex and that if #2 doesn't get the freakishly curly gene that she will resent people gushing over her sister.
Ugh, yes, people with the best intentions say the dumbest things. My daughter is very obviously bi-racial (blonde hair with very Asian facial features) and people make comments along the lines of "Mixed kids are always the prettiest" on literally a daily basis. It's so weird, not true and inappropriate to me. We have a large extended family with a ton of cousins and she is the only one of mixed race. She asked her very pale blonde cousin recently "are you sad you're white?". Gahhhh.
I'm guilty of thinking bi-racial kids are super pretty, pretty sure I wouldn't say it to their Mum though.
As much as I wouldn't want any kid to feel badly because of how they look, I can't help but think the world has come a long way when a kid can ask in all honesty, "are you sad you're white?"
Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old