My Daughter Has the Same Physical “Flaw” I Did Growing Up. It’s Breaking My Heart.
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My lovely, thoughtful, innovative, amusing 7-year-old child occurs to have reasonable skin and dark body hair, and increasingly more kids are talking about it. In some cases this is mean-spirited ("You should be a young boy"), often it is an observation ("You have a great deal of hair on your arms"), however in either case, it upsets her. I advise her that she is ideal as is, that everybody has hair, which individuals should not discuss ...