High fit

Parental Controls is about whether you give yourself the option to choose who you are instead of defaulting to how you were raised. Lailah Taylor was raised in an environment that, consciously or not, taught her to minimize her Blackness. Her mom straightened her hair. No one affirmed her natural appearance. She absorbed those messages and ran them for years. Having her own kids and choosing to do daily affirmations with them — to build exactly the self-worth she was never given — is her actively overriding the programming she was raised with.