Teaching Our Daughters to Define Their Self-Worth

Heather Jauquet
Family Matters
Published in
4 min readApr 27, 2022

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Letting her be her own superhero

Photo by Gabriela Braga on Unsplash

“What? I didn’t mean it like that. Or are you spending too much time with your mom?” he asked when my daughter looked up from her school-assigned laptop. The teacher had just given a deep beleaguered sigh, and my daughter caught it. She never said a word, but the teacher became immediately defensive.

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Heather Jauquet
Family Matters

Writer. Wife. Mom. Runner. Crocheter. Cancer patient in a pandemic.