This photo a day challenge, is where I embark on the epic, personal journey to take one photograph every day for the month of January, of the things that are important to me.
“Make sure you put my hair on the side mum.”
“Why do I always have to put it on the side?”
“Because that’s how it looks the prettiest!”
Since when did she become so conscious of the way she looks; of the clothes she wears; of her hairstyles? How does a six year old know what ‘pretty’ is anyway? She often gets upset, and quite easily, if she doesn’t look the way she wants to be. I try to tell her she is amazing. Every day. I want her to know that she is beyond beautiful… my eyes’ picture of perfection. I truly want her to believe it but sometimes my words just aren’t enough.
I don’t want her to worry about body image, or fitting in. I want so badly for her to grow up feeling perfectly perfect in her own skin. I want her to know that beauty is always in the eye of the beholder and far more reaching than the skin’s surface.
I hope with all my heart that her quest to find her inner beauty is not a struggle; that she is comfortable in her own skin. Isn’t that what every mother wants for their daughter?
by nicolera
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