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Spacebunny19
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for moms (to be) of DD's...a princess ?
Spacebunny19
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Ok, so I'm not a big girlie-girl. Never have been. And maybe it's still the bad taste in my mouth from DH's 1/2 sis's "princess party" (when she turned six) which was so over the top (as are all her parties, but that's not the point), but I am very anti-princess "mindset"/"attitude."
Don't get me wrong: i don't hate pink (although I would like more options for girl stuff in not just pink--say, more lavender, more sage green, etc.) and I don't have some preconceived ban on watching Disney movies with LO, but I don't want my daughter wearing a bunch of (pink) crap that says "Daddy's Princess" or "I'm the Princess."
Is anyone else like this or am I weird about this?
The kicker is, I had to buy some onesies for the childcare class to practice dressing a doll, and I bought the least-pink-dominated pack I could find, and it had butterflies and stuff or stripes, and was cute, but when I opened it, I found the way it was packaged was such that the label obscured the design on the top onesie, and it says "Princess" on it. Crap! I am thinking of trying to stitch in something like "No Princess Attitude Here" or "Princess Free Zone." (Or just giving it away to someone else having a girl.)
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Re: for moms (to be) of DD's...a princess ?
We don't own one thing that has the word princess on it. I personally hate the whole "daddy's little princess" or anything else like that. Thankfully friends and family also know this rule (as well as my rule that she will not wear anything with Pooh, Dora, or any other character) and she has not received anything like that as gifts.
I did however just purchase her a shirt that says Sassy on it...but that fits her personality.
I can't stand the Disney Princess stuff and I'm not a big fan of many other characters either. The only thing I got with Pooh on it was a travel wipe case and I covered it with fabric and made it pretty. My family knows that I hate bears and I always have.
The older DD gets, the harder it is to keep her away from the Disney Princess crap. MIL bought her one of those little fold out couches and it was pink with Disney Princesses and she said, "I hope you don't hate it too much!" lol DD loves it so what can I really say.
Oh and her chair that she's sitting in, the pic in my siggy, that is also Disney Princesses. It was either that or Dora. They were the lesser or the two evils.
glad i am not alone on this. i just wish it wasn't on everything! And FWIW, Sassy is totally different. Being sassy is fine with me!
at the same trip when i got the dreaded hidden princess onesie, I also had to buy a hooded towel and washcloth. all said princess somewhere, and even one that was cute with a frog had a crown. well, why does a frog need a crown unless it's a frog prince or princess?! I found the ONLY one that didn't have either. And it's pink. But it's a hot pink monster and that's more my style. I will happily have a little hot pink monster. And we'll teach her the color is called "fuschia."
(And her room is yellow and will have a Noah's Ark theme as soon as DH can spot me while I stencil it. No pink in sight!)
DH and I have issued a blanket ban on clothing with words or licensed characters on it. We don't buy it ourselves and we give it away to a children's shelter when we receive it as a gift. People have been very generous and have given us so much clothing that LO will never miss the things we have donated.
I don't expect that we will be able to avoid the Disney princesses entirely as LO grows up, but as long as she isn't asking for them, we will not provide them. And she will never wear anything that says "Diva" or "Juicy" or any pants with writing on the butt as long as I have the power to prevent her.
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Ditto that. Don't even get me started on tweens wearing Playboy Bunny logo crap.
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We just had DD's 1st birthday and so many cards and gifts said princess. Even if the card didn't actually say princess, the gift giver wrote in "happy birthday to your little princess" or something like that. DH and I do not call her our princess (and never will). I do not want her growing up with that whole mindset. Ugh.
see, and your DD is awesome, what with frosting in the hair. that's totally more my style.
Not a fan of princess stuff. I let my DD choose a toy every time we go to the store and more times than not, she wants dinosaurs and tractors and Hot Wheels. On the other hand, she loves purses and bracelets. I let her choose and I don't force her to like Barbies and princess stuff, because when I was little I never liked them either and I hated when people assumed I did.
As far as clothes go, she never wears princess stuff. She does wear dresses on special occasions. For the most part, she looks like a toddler who plays runs around and plays outside. Not like she's going to a tea party. When she was a baby, people got me ruffle tights for her and Disney character stuff and frilly socks and dresses. Like porcelain doll style. Totally NMS. On a typical day, she wears a cute t-shirt or tank top, jean shorts, sandals, pony tail...and even some bracelets and a bow if she wants them.
Too cute! I would also buy it for her if DD requested it.
My H and I are also anti-princess, and I would consider myself very girly. My H says it reminds him of the trashy mall rat teenagers who wear shorts that say "Princess", "Cutie", or "Diva" on their ass.
I do plan on watching all of the Disney princess movies with our daughter, but I also plan on watching Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Lion King, etc. I just like Disney/pixar movies.
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i abhor princess terms, books, etc. DH doesn't get it. As DD gets older it is harder to steer her away from it. She wanted a Disney princess book from the library and I let her have it, but when we read it, I replace the word "princess" with "girl"
Princess is not something that a girl should aspire to unless she is of royal lineage. It is not a job description and connotes entitlement. hate it. hate it.
Now character, like Dora and Pooh, I'm fine with. When you are trying everything to get your 2.5 yo to pick out her clothes, those characters come in real handy!
I have a 2 yo DD, and I have to say that, even though we didn't push those sort of things on her, she found them anyway. Sometimes, they just are drawn to those things. She picks the Disney princesses out herself -- but she also loves Toy Story and Madagascar. And she loves playing with baby dolls and doing very traditionally "girly" things.
I am not a huge girly girl -- in fact, I rarely wear dresses or skirts because I just don't find them comfortable -- but my daughter is outdoing me in that regard all on her own. Sometimes, it is just their personality. I agree with pp who said that it gets harder as they get older... they start to pick things up in school, etc.
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