Child Proof

Why You Shouldn’t Criticize Yourself in Front of Your Kids

The things you hate about yourself will become the things they hate about themselves

Elizabeth Preston

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Forge

4 min readSep 19, 2019

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Photo: Westend61/Getty Images

When you looked in the mirror this morning, did you sigh? Did you gripe about your weight or the bags under your eyes? Last time you struggled to calculate a tip, did you make a…

Elizabeth Preston

Written by Elizabeth Preston

Writer for

Forge

Elizabeth Preston is a freelance science journalist and humor writer in the Boston area.

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