Raise Confident, Body-Positive Girls
Sugar and spice may be nice, but these days, girls need to be made of hardier stuff to get through tween-hood and adolescence. But building a girl's self-esteem into that of a confident young woman begins in the nursery. Congratulate your little girl on the things she does, not how she looks. Take the emphasis away from "you're so pretty" and place it on "you're so smart" instead.