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When your child questions their natural features

My daughter came home from school asking why her hair is 'weird' and all I could think about was how I spent years straightening mine to fit in at work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent confronts how their own assimilation choices may have inadvertently shaped their child's self-perception.

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