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How to build confidence in children who don't see themselves represented

I told my daughter she's beautiful and she said 'but I don't look like the pretty girls at school' and my heart broke into a million pieces.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Raising children in a world that doesn't reflect their beauty back to them requires constant repair of damage done by absent mirrors.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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