Wed Parenting and Love

What to do?
The kids will be kids
and they are obsessed
sometime with how they look
and what other people think
of them
and how they are going
to get into college
and what their parents
will think of them

and this feels like
a lot of pressure

which it is:

all this attention
on the outside

outside looks
and opinions
and approval
and possible
disapproval

and how bad can it get?

really bad,
we don't need to go there

and what's one easy sweet quick
way
out

the usual:
back to the present
now

paying attention
to them
as they are
not as should be
or they want to be

just good old Mr. Rogers stuff:
I love you just the way you
are