I tell my son he is perfect as he is – so what does he see when he looks at my bleached-blonde hair and makeup?

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At her son’s primary school, children are taught to be proud of who they are. Sitting in a parents’ briefing with her bleached-blonde hair and light makeup, this mother began to question that message – and the gap between what parents teach their children about self-acceptance and what their actions reveal.

As parents, we say one thing then do another when it comes to appearance and self-acceptance – and children absorb this contradiction, the writer says. (Photo: iStock/wombatzaa)

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