One evening, my daughter calmly said to me, “Mom, Grandpa told me I have a very beautiful body and that I have a beautiful figure.” I froze. I didn’t say anything to Grandpa that night… but the next day, I secretly went to his house, and what I saw made me cry34

My father looked at Emily.

Emily lowered her head.

“Mom…”

“I want to know right now.”

For a few seconds, no one spoke.

Then my father pulled out a chair.

“Sit down.”

“I don’t want to sit down.”

He could see how frightened I really was.

“All right. Then just listen.”

Emily started crying.

I immediately went over to her.

“What happened?”

She looked at me.

“Kids at school are making fun of me.”

I froze.

“What?”

It turned out that for weeks, several girls at school had been making cruel comments about her appearance.

Emily had started wearing oversized clothes.

She no longer wanted to be photographed.

She had even dropped out of the school performance she had once been excited about.

And she hadn’t told me because she was afraid I would immediately go to the school and make things worse.

The only person she had told