Funny thing is that I do not fear that one day they might be tempted to try drugs… and I do hope that I am right about that.
But I had a fear that they would grow up to be too self-conscious about the way they look… especially that the older one would one day be tempted by her physical characteristics and turn into a shallow creature that would pay too much emphasis on her looks.
Everybody who saw her picture made comment that she could be a model. I didn’t even mention any of that to her or commented. Too afraid what she might say. And I did dread that one day she might utter something like “Why don’t I enter a beauty pageant?”
She’ll be 14 soon. However, she did came one day from the hairdresser and said she’s quite annoyed becuase people keep telling her to enter a beauty pageant and she thinks it’s stupid.
Oh, I was so relieved and proud of her.
That’s one down, one to go, :). The younger niece wrote the other day a homework saying that her older sister is her idol because she is so pretty. Well, she’s just 11. I hope that her expressed admiration of her sister is based not only in her sister’s looks but also in her personality.