Body image issues starting young.

So my daughter came home from school last week and we were unlocking the door, she looked down at her thighs and asked why they were so much bigger and fatter than the other girls. My heart sank and it took everything I had in me to not just break down. So I got down on her level and touched her thighs, and said they aren't big or fat they are perfect for your body, this is all muscle , because you are so strong and you play hard. You ride your bike, jump on the trampoline, run, hike, dance, sometimes you even try to teach me yoga. These legs are going to take you more places than you could even imagine and we need strong legs to carry us through our life. No matter how I feel about my body on any given day I only do positive body talk in front of my kids. I knew that there would be a day where she doubted the perfection of her body , I didn't expect it to be at 5. I think I was in second grade when I looked at my thighs during a ballet recital and thought they were fat, I was too ashamed to even say anything to my mom, because there was something wrong with me! I spent way too much time and energy in my younger years worried that my body , my existence was wrong because if how my body looked. I hated the curves as they emerged and stopped doing some of the things I love. I'm an adult now and on occasion a seed if dislike for my body creeps in . Those times are few and far between now, and I'm glad I don't spend my life's energy Wishing something was different about the way I look. I want to see my daughter not give another ounce of energy or thought into comparing herself to other people. I want to see her move through her life without fear or inhabited by thoughts of self loathing. How do I do this? How do I raise a daughter who doesn't spend her life with a disdain of the body she is growing? I was expecting this at some point but not yet. I wasn't ready... via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2xBRJM2