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[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]

Don't let others discourage you, PP.  I feel strongly that the stories that feed my child's mind should be of the highest possible caliber, so I am one of those crazy moms who limits media consumption and "characters."

I agree it is impossible for most families, because if you stick your kid in daycare then preschool, then public, you lose control over what they are exposed to from friends and from classroom materials.  I kept mine with a like-minded nanny, then sent them to a character-free preschool, and they are about to start a character-free elementary program.  I know others who have stayed home partly for this reason.  I may seem like a silly priority for some, but if you want to, you can make it work.

When my then-3-year-old saw Dora at the white House Egg Roll 2 years ago, she yelled, "Look!  It's the girl from my pull-ups!"  Only assocition for her.  She is now 5 and in the princess phase, but the only Disney princess she knows is Merida (an intentional choice on my part).  Other than that, we look for stories about princesses and queens who display bravery, sacrifice, leadership, and--most importantly--ownership of their choices.  Her peer group is friends from her school and we have had only one princess birthday party so far.  Her brother is right there too.

You can think this is a stupid or wasteful priority, but if you think it's impossible, you're wrong.[/quote]

Merida? Really? We are not a "Disney Free" household or anything but I actually ditched our copy of Brave because of how dark/scary it was, and how messed up Merida's relationship is with her controlling mother...and nothing like having your own dad chase your mother-as-a-bear around with a sword.

Lilo and Stitch, and Stitch gets a Glitch are two other ones that got "lost" because of how it wound up one of my kids, who starts acting like Stitch in a not-so-adorable way after watching those movies.

Lately I've been reading a children's Bible and collections of classic tales like Arabian Nights, Aesop's Fables, Norse and Greek legends etc. with my kids. We are not religious but I want them to know the touchstones of literature. You can't interpret the stained glass windows in a cathedral, or anything about the majority of western art and literature through the Renaissance if you don't know about the Bible. I feel like modern characters can be just one filament in a tapestry. And that way they aren't that weird kid who doesn't know who Spiderman is. 
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