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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that there is a little judgment of girls who are girly though most people don't care.

The super girly phase is very short lived and no indication of future style. My daughter started it right as she turned 3 and would only wear dresses from that day until she was around 7 when she slowly started to wear pants.  She's now in 8th grade and it seems like a million years ago.  She only wears dresses for dressy occasions and is not particularly into her looks or dressing up.  This is how most girls her age are, regardless of how girly they were when they were little.  [/quote]

Exactly this.  My DD was also a 3-4 yo into sparkles, dresses and princesses, but she dropped that around 6 or 7?  Now 9 and not into dresses or looking very "girly", dresses for comfort and practicality.  Wouldn't be caught dead in anything princess-like.

It's a very common stage, and some EC educator says it has a lot to do with beginning ideas of categorization and defining their characteristics in rules that are very absolute: I am a girl and I wear dresses.  Later on, they develop more mature ideas and they care much less about that sort of stuff.

It does not mean that she's going to grow up to be a teenage girl who is completely frivolous and calls herself a princess.  Relax people.  The people who judge little girls get a big  :roll: from me.    [/quote]

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