On the other hand the father could tell the daughter she’s beautiful, define all the ways to measure beauty, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so on and so forth.
Frankly, a father that sees his daughter as being ugly would seem weird to me, even if she was genuinely ugly.
Isn’t it funny how people see things differently?
Of course, any loving father would do just that.
Frankly, a father that sees his daughter as being ugly would seem weird to me, even if she was genuinely ugly.
The loving father would not see his daughter as ugly, but the father of an ugly daughter would also be wise enough to know that is how others will see her. When the daughter says, "Am I ugly?" he will quickly say "No! I know that you are beautiful." But she will press and say, "but others make fun of me and say that I am."
That juncture of the conversation is the moment of truth. Does he just blurt out the cold hard facts or does he take exquisite care to build her up and teach her and do everything in his power to help her learn how to be beautiful as she can be both on the inside and the outside. Any loving person knows the answer to that one.