To My Dear Daughter, Well, whole books can be and have been written about self esteem. How to re-say those things without sounding like a broken record? There is not much that parents, and especially a mom, can say to a teenage daughter to make her feel good about herself, I know. We see so much that you cannot; we see the goodness, and we see the beauty, and we see the way your friends laugh and smile when you are around. But more than what we see, is what we parents know in our hearts. And the knowledge we have, is that the importance of outward stuff truly fades over time. It is without a doubt 100% true, although it is cliche and your generation no doubt gets tired of hearing it, that the social media ubiquity has a totally destructive influence on how your generation perceives themselves and feels about themselves. There are scientific studies that prove mood lowers after being on social media. Which is another reason why I think it's important as heck(!) to take brea...