よろしくお願いします
My 12-year-old daughter is not a pretty child. I know that makes me sound like a terrible parent, but it’s relevant to the question. I love her, and that makes her beautiful to me, but she doesn’t hit a lot of aesthetic markers for beauty. She has lots of other good qualities—academically, she is well ahead of the curve,she’s very compassionate, and she’s really a very sweet girl.
Her schoolmates, however, prefer to focus on her physical appearance, and there’s been some bullying this year. My wife always reassures her that the girls are just jealous, that she’s going to be more beautiful than any of them—the whole ugly duckling skit. However, I was an ugly little kid—there was a lot going on—and I knew it; I had a mirror. The lies my parents told me to comfort me just made me feel worse, because how terrible must it be to ugly that they’d lie to me about it?
the whole ugly duckling skitはどのような意味でしょうか？あと、how terrible must it be to ugly that they’d lie to me about it? の和訳もお願いします。to uglyは見たことがない形なのですが、ミスプリでしょうか？よろしくお願いします
