Serious question

timestolen:

hellonurse:

tams77:

Okay ladies and gentlemen,

I’ve got a serious question for you. I’ve got tons of freckles on my face.

My daughter (14) has some, but HATES them. Wants to cover them up with a pound of makeup which I of course don’t agree with all the makeup to begin with.

So, with that being said…how do you REALLY feel about freckles?

I LOVE freckles! I think they are cute on kids and beautiful as they grow older.

Well, unless you are just one huge freckle. Then it’s ok too though :)

 Freckles are awesome.

My daughter has what we call a “frecklace”. It’s a line of freckles across her clavicles in the shape of semi-circle right where a necklace would fall. It’s neat-o.

My son, a pale redhead, has a load of freckles all over.

I love them.

And now I’ve said and thought about freckles so much in the last few minutes that the word doesn’t even make sense any more.

Freckles.

Freckllllllllllllllllllllllles.

I love freckles. Always have. It may have to do with the ½ Irish blood in my veins, but awhile ago The Wife and I were watching a program with the chick from Grey’s Anatomy (the main character) and saw that in real life she has freckles which they completely hide on the show, and we both thought “Why would they do that??!?!”

I do have to add, however, that none of this amounts to a hill of beans when faced with a 14 year old who is self-conscious about them.

It’s easy at 36 to say “This is a good time for her to learn about accepting yourself as you are” and I do worry that the patterns we start young in changing ourselves to please others might be a hard habit to break… but at 14? I’m not sure I would have “gotten” that at 14, and I was pretty smart for a 14 year old.

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