This morning reading a daddy blog (Daddy Types), I almost choked laughing reading the following post:
All your kid talks about is butterflies? Fine. Just run with it. They're just dinosaurs for girls. With the Butterflies of the World poster, your kid'll be the best damn lepidopterist this side of Vladimir Nabokov.
Rainbows? All you hear is rainbows? You can go the optical science route, sure, or hustle the kids off to MoMA & PS1 next weekend for the opening of Olafur Eliasson's show. I'm sure there'll be rainbows out the wazoo.
Now for the cream...
You say your kid's got a bad case of the unicorns and faeries? I'm sure it's nothing a few unsupervised screenings of Ridley Scott's Legend can't fix.
Ain't THAT the truth. I'm an adult and that show freaked me out! Shudder.
Anyway, I had to tell our friend Twink (who has a daughter in the danger zone of such things) and Margaret and both of them said the EXACT same thing, "Well what do you show them to cure them of a bad case of the princesses?"
Well? Weigh in, internets. What movie can traumatize the princess urge out of little girls?
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hate to break it to ya I think it's in the dna strand along with any plastic animal with large eyes and funky hair.
so gear up new daddy to know all the disney princess names- shudder...
ber
This is what my husband does. Whenever my kids try to pretend play princess, he tells them straight, that they could never be a princess. For one thing we don't have any in this country (which if you moved to Sweden, you might have a problem, haha). He then explains the whole issue with being of noble birth etc. The icing on the princess cake is he then explains that princesses exploit their people and bleed them of their hard earned money so that they can be spoiled. Do you really want to be a princess now? It usually works.
You know the other thing is, you are the parent, and you get to make the decisions. Who's in charge?
Today I took my 4 youngest to the dentist, and had to tell them no balloons, it wasn't the end of the world, they survived.
A couple of sessions with Pan's Labyrinth ought to clear that right up. In fact, just get to the part with the giant frog and you'll be golden.
Leslie
Pan's is also a great movie for pregnant people - er NOT. That sucker should have a warning label on it.
Maybe that bloody version of Snow White with Sigourney Weaver would do the trick. I dunno though, the princess train is pretty unstoppable. Marketing is AMAZING! Just teach her to be the self assured butt kicking kind of princess. I have a book for you: "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert N. Munsch. Now that's MY kind of princess.
Just tell them about what happened to Princess Diana.
-Daymont
PS> Stop reading "Daddy Blogs" before your baby is even born. You're making us regular guys look bad.
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