How do you teach your children…..?

to be confident with their outer beauty but not to base everything on beauty? How do you teach that balance?

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Answer:
You model confidence yourself, as ideal you can. And, you make sure they see you finding real beauty everywhere (not just superficial, media-identified beauty). Find the beauty in everyone, each day & talk to them about it. Find beauty in strength & intelligence & kindness.

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I'm not sure that you can. I don't know why it is, but women just seem to not like something about their appearances as a general rule. You can see a woman in the movies who lots of people think is the most beautiful woman in the world, but if you talk to her, she has the ability to list at least one thing she doesn't like about her appearance. That's also another thing that parents can speak a blue streak about, but children will still end up being heavily influenced by peers and the media. We might be telling them it doesn't matter, but we seem to be the only people who are. It's hard to convince your daughter that her freckles are pretty and make her unique when she doesn't see freckled faced women on the covers of magazines and kids at school are calling her nasty names.

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Answer:
confidence has nothing to do with beauty.

confidence is a feeling one has about their capabilities, and that feeling comes from hard work and knowledge.