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[quote=Anonymous]I can relate a little bit. I was a heavy kid-adolescent and pretty much always struggled with my weight. My dd has an effortlessly slim and athletic body. She's also good at a lot of things and I never was. She's growing up in a house with very happy parents and she will have more opportunities for classes and camps that I didn't have because we were poor and I had a single mom. So one hand I do feel a bit of envy for the ease her life will have that mine didn't.

But she will have her own struggles, and just because my childhood was harder in my eyes won't make her problems less important to her. I also worry about her growing into a too-pretty teen. I kind of like that DH and I were both geeks and didn't sleep around a lot as a result. I worry that popular attractive kids end up in the drinking/drug/promiscuous sex crowds like they did at my high school. Not that it's a hard and fast rule, but I hope that my kids grow into a self confident persona with a dash of geeky nerdom that will keep them in check. [/quote]

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