You're gonna think I'm just a bragging mom. Maybe I am a little. But I have a seriously gorgeous kid.
See, you think I'm bragging.
But from the time she was an infant I've had people stopping me to comment on how beautiful she is.
You still think I'm just bragging.
I got cornered once in the meat section of the grocery store by four people- who did not know each other- who said they had to come over and look at the gorgeous baby. I am not making this up. I've had a lot of people ask me if she models and even had one woman dig up a magazine to show me a picture of a child who looks amazingly like my kid. I swear she still thinks I'm hiding my child's secret modeling career.
The point of all this is that it's kind of tough to encourage your kid toward a career in medicine while everyone else is saying she ought to model. A couple of weeks ago my husband's family was over at the house and the conversation was something like this.
Great Grandma: Oooooh, look at those long legs, you should be a model dear.
Me: Or a doctor.
Grandma: Oh I know, she could be an actress.
Me: Or a doctor.
Great Grandma: And those eyes, definitely a model.
Me: Or maybe she could GO TO SCHOOL.
*Sigh*
I'm happy my daughter is pretty. Mostly. But I also fear the fact that people (like family) might skew her perception of reality and make her think she doesn't need things like an education. Or a personality.
And don't even get me started on boys.
7 comments:
please do something honey!! one of my daughter's step daughters has been the beautiful one all her life. she is completely into her looks now and won't study, she doesn't have to, she's pretty. it makes my daughter nuts! she tries to tell her to get her education. (and honestly, between us, she now even sounds dumb when she talks)... sort of like a california blonde girl, you know??? i know you will not let this happen to your daughter, it would be so awful for HER... you are a great mom!!!
smiles, bee
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
You know, even if she does end up acting or modelling, education is never a waste. Lily Cole and Natalie Portman, to name but two, have completed their education whilst titting about looking pretty.
Puss
Maybe we should hope for an awkward acne stage? ;)
Thanks Bee
That think with your daughter's step-daughter is my worst fear come true.
Puss
That's the angle I'm going for. My daughter's already a major book worm and very artisitic and I'm hoping she stays that way.
Lee
And braces. Braces should help, right?
Braces don't seem to carry the three-year plague of shame they used to. My niece actually wanted them because all her cool friends had them.
Maybe impress upon her the horror of being in the low-level classes in high school, where she'll be surrounded not just by kids who have a hard time learning, but also by stoners, slackers and future criminals. If she's intelligent, it'll kill her sitting there being spoon-fed basic grammar while two nimrods behind her make comments about her boobs and behave like apes hopped up on caffeine.
In my experience, those kids who garner such public attention often have curly hair. Does she?
I do love a mama who's crazy for her kid.
Interesting Jocelyn, but nope. Straight as can be. Which is strange since mine is very curly. Personally, I think she's much cuter than me. People say she looks like Snow White.
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