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Mrs T : 22 January 2010

I found this posting by Dara Chadwick, 'You'd be so pretty if...', she talks about how she feels when she sees pictures of herself from many years ago. Dara is an author and has published a book called, 'You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies -- Even When We Don't Love Our Own.

It is true that as parents, we can pass down to our children our attitudes about our bodies. How can we expect them to appreciate themselves if all they hear for us is that we are 'too fat'.

I grew up listening to my mom bemoan everything from the size of her thighs to the shape of her eyes. So you can just imagine my dismay the first time someone exclaimed, "you look just like your mother!"

It wasn't that I thought she wasn't beautiful - it was that I knew she thought she wasn't beautiful. So If I looked like her, and she didn't like the way she looked, then that must mean..."

Grab the book from Amazon UK and Amazon US. Check out the comments and reviews, seems like most enjoyed it and thought reading it was great idea.

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