A daughter asks her dad if she's sexy. Appropriate responses?

I had a conversation elsewhere online, and wanted to get the input of parents here. I have a young daughter who could one day be asking me these types of questions.A dad posted that his daughter had asked him if she was sexy. His response was "no, you're seven." This answer was considered the correct answer by the majority of people, which is troubling to me.I believe this answer shows the father was not listening to what the daughter was really asking. She likely doesn't understand the subtleties of the language differences between "sexy" and "beautiful." She's struggling with self-image and needs some validation from her father that she is beautiful and valuable. I would imagine that if I was a little girl, hearing "NO" as the first word out of my father's mouth could be pretty devastating.A more appropriate response in my view would be to answer the question she really means to ask, with an initial "you're beautiful," and then potentially have a longer discussion about what the word sexy means, including age-appropriateness and society's way of over-emphasizing the importance of beauty/sexiness in valuing females.How have you dealt with these types of questions? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2wCyMIP