An Open Letter To My Daughter
Posted by Summer | Posted in kids, life, parenting | Posted on 11-21-2009
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Dear Saffron
Someday you will be a teenager. And when that day comes you may start to have feelings for other teens. The way they smell, the way the smile, the way they laugh. All of these things might start to make you feel like smiling and giggling and blushing. And if, heaven help you, you are like your mother you might start to get the idea that you need a certain special someone. That this other person “completes” you. That the affection of this other person gives you worth.
And when that day comes, I want to say no.

No.

No.
You don’t need to wait on anyone else to complete you. You don’t need to sink into nothingness if that someone leaves. You don’t need to do or be anything for anyone else but yourself. You don’t need to wait for someone else to come in and save you.
You, are beautiful. Even if your skin is oily and your hair is frizzy and your teeth are crooked. You are beautiful. You are whole, complete, one. Live for yourself, enjoy your life, make up your own mind, find your own happiness.
Loves will come and go. Lovers will come and go. There is no white knight on a stallion, or sparkling vampire in a Volvo. And even if there were, you don’t need them. All you need is to look in the mirror and know that you are beautiful.














