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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok call me smug or whatever but I am hoping to be able to keep my now 7 mos old boy away from commercialized characters as much as possible. (Although I think the male characters aren't as bad as the girls -- the female characters have impossible body shapes and beauty.) I suppose Dora is different...not sure bc my last encounter with baby world was pre-Dora

but disney characters, female superheroes, all pinched waists and ridiculous beauty. eff that.

not sure yet what to replace it with, however![/quote]

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Umm, your child is only 7 MONTHS old!!  Come back and talk to us when he's seven YEARS old!!!!  [/quote]

LOL!  Seriously, good luck with that!!![/quote]

Not the PP but if you don't own a TV, I think the chances that your kid won't recognize a TV character at a birthday party are pretty high. We don't have one because if we did, DH & I would never talk; once it's on, we just zone out of everything else, which clearly not everyone experiences but for those of us who do, it's not some mommy crusade, it's just a lifestyle choice. PP could very well raise her child without TV. It's not that crazy of an idea IMO. [/quote]

I call bullshit.  For a kid in school, even preschool, you're going to get bday party invitations, go to b-day parties, see lunchboxes, backpacks, be exposed to some character books, see the murals in the doctor's offices, see ads in stores and on billboards . . . unless you live in a cave, your kid WILL be exposed to some characters.  I'd even go so far as to say a LOT of the characters.  My DD comes home talking about all sorts of characters that we never watch/read/play.  It will happen.  It will.[/quote]

NP here.  In our preschooler's group of friends (which includes a range from 2-5 year old girls and boys) the only characters he has learned from friends are the Sesame Street ones.  Even the older girls in the group aren't that into princesses.  It does happen.[/quote]

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