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I was watching this cartoon the other day. It was quite funny. These people found a cat, but they wanted a dog so they kept telling the cat that it was a dog and treated it like a dog. They took it for walks, gave it dogfood, played fetch. One day, they saw someone who they thought was a burglar and got the cat to chaseafter him. Somehow they ended up on the roof and the cat fell. As it was falling, it was trying to remember how to land on its feet but it couldn't remember how to be a cat and ended up falling on its back. This made me think of when I was growing up and how the things people said affected me. When I was really young I used to think I was beautiful. But everyday I was told that I was fat and not beautiful at all whether at school or at home. Especially at home. This made me unconfident with myself. I was never happy about how I looked and constantly felt that I wasn't beautiful or pretty enough.
I'm not saying tell me I'm beautiful even though I'm not. I'm not saying tell me I'm slim even though I'm not. When I do something badly I want to know. When I wear something wrong for me I want to know. All I'm saying is criticism should always be constructive. Don't put people down when it's unnecessary. If there's cause, then go ahead, but in a good way.
What a person hears about themselves affects what they think about themselves. Nobody has the right to make another person feel that way, especially a growing child. A child absorbs anything they're told as their minds are still clean and pure. If the child experiences such teasings or putdowns at home they should at least be able to count on their family to make them feel better about themselves. People say put the past behind you, but I say put it right beside you. I don't ever want to forget these things because I want to remember them in order to use the experience with my own children.
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