I talk to my children during dinner about a police show that my daughter (13) likes to watch. “They are all very beautiful people,” she notes. I use this moment for a pedagogical talk about how people always look more beautiful in series and on social media than in real life. She immediately interrupts me: “We know that, we see you every day.”
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