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[Editor's Note: How many times have you experienced something in parenting that made you stop and think, "Oh, that's why my parents did that." Paige at Mikey & Paigey has been experiencing some of that as she deals with her "wild child" Ada and makes sense of how we're supposed to raise and speak to our daughters. She questions the newer trend of never complimenting a girl on her beauty, but acknowledges the importance of recognizing a girl's other strengths. -Jenna]
You'll Have to Adjust:
No, my mother doesn't give me the advice I want. She gives sound advice; the advice I need.The kind of advice that I first hear and think, "What? That's seriously it?" then later understand just how wise she is.
A friend linked an article on her Facebook page yesterday: How to Talk to Little Girls. As I read it I thought about my mother again and again.
My mother has always been a champion of the thinking woman by being a model of one her entire life. When I was in junior high she went back to get her Master's in mathematics. I remember hearing her talk about her studies and seeing her leave for school. She is brilliant. Questions of: What did you learn today? What books are you reading? How did your test go? always rang throughout in my childhood home.
I always knew that my brain was valued.
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