This topic is something really hits home for me, and I'm sure it hits all the daughters in the world as well. When I was around 10, my mom gave me some "advice." Let me say first though, I was a chubby kid and I honestly used to not even worry about my body image. Then one day I got in the bathtub at my grandmother's house and my mom, as she always would, came in the bathroom to do different things. What she said still sticks in my head to this day.

I stood up to bathe, and my mom looked at me and told me I need to stop eating so much. That's not that bad, right? Then she said, "I don't want you to grow up not being able to fit in or wear certain clothes." OK. Then she says, "No man is going to want you if you are big. People are going to be ashamed of you. When you try to dress up and look sexy, you won't get the same attention as everyone else. No one is going to marry you." It was so much at once.

I didn't say anything back at all. She finally finished whatever she was doing and left the bathroom. And all I could hear was her and my grandmother arguing. My grandmother saying, "Why would you tell her all that? She is a kid." And my mother saying, "She needed to be told."

Honestly, her telling me all that helped. Needless to say, what my mother said stuck with me because I'm in such a better shape than I was at 10, and I have no problem dressing sexy. I have tough skin, but for the life of me I can't figure out why she would say those things to a 10 year old. Is this what we teach our little girls?

I was a straight A, involved student, and she was telling me no one would want me? Is that what was important at the time? This is in no way an article bashing my mom, it's just that I don't understand why she felt it was so important.

Also, there was this video that went viral of a mother beating her daughter for the sexual things her daughter was posting on social media. Now, I would discipline my daughter for that too, but the mother was beating the daughter and telling her things that made it seem to me like she was only beating her because of what others would say. It's never OK to beat a child like she did at all! It felt she was only mad at her because of society, instead of real reasons like pedophiles on the internet or future job interviews. Why?

Then there's the guys who swear up and down they aren't letting their daughters be hoes. People are telling their little sisters everything except for what's actually important. And then they turn around and tell us all we are good for is a pretty face. Well that's all you ever teach us!

Instead of telling us how much we should weigh, what's desirable to men, and how sexual we can appear to be, tell us how to be more than the pretty face you complain about. Encourage us to learn and grow as a person. That's what will bring us far in life, not our standards.