The conversation I had with my daughter is best reflected in these photos by a fellow mom

Just the other day at bed time we were talking about who did what in school and she confessed she finds her class girls talking about Frozen, Elsa and Anna and how she was tired of it and the boys spoke of Dinosaurs and she loves them. In a recent project Strong Is The New Pretty, Atlanta-based photographer Kate Parker shows that, in reality, girls are “loud, athletic, fearless, messy, joyous and frustrated”.
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Enough has been said about how daughters don’t need to be just pretty and using the right adjectives for your girls. I am a firm believer and that’s what I teach my girls too, you can do anything.

Just the other day at bed time we were talking about who did what in school and she confessed she finds her class girls talking about Frozen, Elsa and Anna and how she was tired of it and the boys spoke of Dinosaurs and she loves them. She wanted to contribute but didn’t know what to do(It also seems like me yesterday, today and forever). Thinking in my mind for an answer that would stay with her forever and form just the right impressions,” I said do what makes you happy versus just trying to fit in. If talking about dinosaurs with the boys and art with the girls makes you happy then do just that”. 

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There is no right answer to what you should have done and it’s okay to talk and play more with the boys and girls. Topics and subjects cannot be defined by your gender is what I explained. When I stumbled on these pictures on Huffpost I had to share them. They are just what I want the world to know about all the girls. So leave those stereotypical adjectives behind.

In a recent project Strong Is The New Pretty, Atlanta-based photographer Kate Parker shows that, in reality, girls are “loud, athletic, fearless, messy, joyous and frustrated”.

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“I wanted to celebrate these girls as they are, not how females are expected to be,” Parker told HuffPost UK Lifestyle. “Being pretty or perfect is not important. Being who they are is.”

While Parker didn’t set out with an agenda when she began to photograph her daughters and their friends – she just wanted to document their childhood and practice using her camera and soon realized these pictures showcased something special.

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Image Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

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