“Tell her she is beautiful, but say it half as much as you say that she is kind and generous and hysterically funny and at the top of your list of favorite people.”
This is Kara Waite. She's a community college professor and instructional designer at a music school.
She's also the aunt of three young girls. So when a friend told her that her 8-year-old daughter was being body-shamed at school, Waite was especially affected.
Waite has struggled with body image her whole life, she told BuzzFeed Life, and is currently working on a memoir about trying to love her body, called Weightless.
In response to her friend's story, she penned this beautiful missive, which is going viral on Facebook.
In it, she discusses what you should and shouldn't say to a kid who's dealing with weight issues — something Kara knows about firsthand.
"I don't remember a time, growing up, when I wasn't self-conscious about my body," she told BuzzFeed Life. "I see my nieces, already, at 9 and 12, talking about size and weight and food and being "good" and not eating a second brownie. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't need to do much besides open my eyes to see subtle and overt body shaming (and its bestie, food shaming) taking place."
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