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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty low-maintenance and very much a feminist.  My daughter went through a very girly princess phase and a few of my friends were surprised I was ok with it.  I'm ok with it (a) because little kids like sparkly/pretty things (as do some adults) and (b) I would have loved some of that stuff when I was her age, and (c) Disney princesses today are so much more evolved than the ones when I was growing up.  Like Merida - Merida in Brave is awesome.  She saves herself and doesn't wait for some dude to save her.  The phase passed. She's had other girly phases and I roll with those too.  [/quote]

I have a 3 year old and our only limitation on what she's allowed to play with is nothing violent. Other than that, we couldn't care less.

She plays with sharks, dinosaurs, Minnie mouse playsets, dolls, etc. I honestly couldn't give a crap about whether she wants to be a princess or a dinosaur for Halloween (this year, she picked a dinosaur, but if it's Elsa next year, who cares). I've bought her clothes from the boys' section because sometimes they have what I'm looking for (especially when it comes to warmer pants for the winter).

So many people just can't understand this though. We decided to paint her nursery light blue purely because we were doing a woodlands creatures theme and it sort of looked like the sky. That made MIL decide that "you don't want her to be girly" and that we would hate it if she bought DD anything pink. Umm ... what? [/quote]

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