The ugly one
As a child, Katie Hawn, author of Magic Nights, was told she wasn’t attractive. Hawn was devastated when, years later, she dared to broach the subject with her mother, who simply said, “Your sister was the pretty one.” “It was official,” she remembers, “and my heart sank.”
Hawn spent most of her childhood in search of healing for that unattractive little girl. She found it by helping others heal and today is a compassionate holistic therapist.
Hawn hopes parents of unattractive children handle things differently than her parents did. “Help them feel beautiful or handsome in any way you can,” she says. “How they feel about themselves is what truly matters.”
The beauty within
Author, coach and motivational speaker Dawniel Patterson-Winningham agrees. In addition to helping professionals achieve their dreams, Patterson-Winningham is raising fraternal twins to be good people.
The life coach teaches her twins to look past their different appearances and focus on their true beauty and others’. “It’s up to us to identify the best in each of our children, whatever that may be.”
Nancy Irwin, a doctor of clinical psychology, reminds parents to reinforce all of the positive traits their children possess. “Stress that the physical is only one dimension of a whole person,” says Dr. Irwin.
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