Self-esteem is also inherited: if you don't like it, your daughter won't like it either

Our children inherit our virtues and also our defects, and inevitably the way we see and talk about our bodies influences our own perception of ourselves.

Dove just launched the campaign Legacy that as a mother of three girls I found Excellent It makes us see that our daughters learn to love or hate their bodies according to what they learn from us, their mothers. Self-esteem is also inherited: if you don't like it, your daughter won't like it either. And it makes us wonder, what legacy of beauty are you going to leave to your daughter?

The way you perceive your own beauty will be the same way your daughter will perceive his. Dove has done the test with five women who were made to write two lists: one with the things they like and the other with things they don't like about their body. The same was asked of his daughters.

The surprise was that the girls' lists were practically the same as those of their mothers. If Mom didn't like her eyes, neither did the girl, if she thought her arms were ugly, her daughter too. The same with the body parts that mothers valued most, their daughters too.

Mothers sometimes do not become aware that with attitudes or comments we make about our body we are influencing the way they perceive themselves and build their self-esteem.

The more positively we value ourselves, the better relationship our daughters will have with their own image and therefore, better self-esteem. If we want to leave them a legacy of positive beauty and that in turn they transmit it to their daughters tomorrow we have to learn to love each other with our defects and virtues.

I have always liked the line of Dove's campaigns, but this one in particular I think it's fantastic and I think all the mothers of girls have to see it.