In this week's Bad Parent essay,
Jeanne Sager confesses that she is a recovering bulimic and is
petrified that she'll pass on her eating disorder to her daughter. 
"I worry constantly: Should she have another cookie?" Sager writes. "Should I buy the
organic peanut butter or the Skippy that's on sale? Am I letting her
get too fat? Am I making her too thin"
Any
woman living in our size-two-is-best society probably has some body
image issues. I know I do. Even those of us who don't take those issues
to the level of having an eating disorder worry that we'll pass on
unhealthy behavior -- staring in mirrors for too long, obsessing over
calories -- to our kids. But here's the thing: I say kids. But really I
mean daughters.
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