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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I felt similarly but once my DD actually got into princess stuff, I wasn't as worried.  She'll put on her Elsa gown and declare that she's "going to work" and will go scribble in a notebook and pretend to take calls on a play phone.  She'll put on her princess gloves and play doctor, or she'll put on her tiara and play cars or legos with her older brother.  She loves all things pink and purple and the more sparkles, the better.  But she also loves to play outside and she'll wear truck t-shirts with a tulle skirt (for twirling, naturally).

The thing I had feared about DD being interested in princess stuff was that she would learn to be this helpless, fragile girl waiting for a man to solve all the problems and whose entire identity would be tied to a boy.  So far I've seen nothing to suggest that's how my DD is interpreting any of this and fortunately, we have several examples of modern Disney characters (Moana, Mulan, Merida, Elsa, Tiana) to point to as examples of girls taking care of themselves, being leaders, and solving their own problems. [/quote]

Do you realize now that your unrealized fears were ridiculous? I mean, presumably you watched Snow White or read Sleeping Beauty or some other princess story as a kid and weren’t negatively impacted. You realize your adult interpretation/over-analyzation of princess stories projected all kinds of imagined negativity that kids simply don’t notice or absorb, right?

So silly.

PS - My son loves Frozen as well as unicorns. My only concern is that some jerky kid or mom will tease him or pass judgment. [/quote]

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