My Mom's kind of Fairy Tale

[aeditimi]

Thanks to Netflicks and LittleOne's abiding love for princess movies, we're currently in possession of Enchanted, which is the Disney movie I always wished they made when I was a teenager and just getting sick of st00pid fairy tales. It makes fun of every fairy tale cliche and breaks them all. It features a non-princess princess who learns to think

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[celeste_42]

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Oh sure, this from the woman who, even though she was raised in yellow and green and gender neutral stuff with cars and dolls and the great outdoors, when she was three INSISTED on dressing in PINK DRESSES and putting at least 14 million pretty barrettes in her hair!!
Cry me a river! I didn't have "Enchanted" to help counter the other stuff (but it sounds like I have got to watch it!! Maybe with K and A?), but you would answer "I want to be a geologist in the daytime and a dancer in the afternoon and a waitperson at night"
Well, look at that!! You've accomplished your goals!! You play in dirt and muck -- real Picasso as well as metaphorically -- during the day, you dance around with your little one and B in the afternoons, and you wait at night. Now, that's what I call living your dream!!

Seriously, isn't watching little minds wrap around life and the world so exciting!? It makes me warm all over to know little ones can still believe in princess.
I remember how flustered your Dad would get over the "where did we go wrong? Why is she dressing in PINK? who told her THAT??!" It's so funny now, but says something about the collective unconscious, I think.
WEll, I felt like crud this morning, but now that I've had something to eat, I'm going to brave the ice and slush and crunchy snow, hope that the garage door didn't freeze shut again last night, and try to get out of the driveway before the next foot of snow falls!!
I'm going to watch Godspell ( can't listen to the music anymore!! I don't have it on disk..) tonight and think of my incredibly faith-spirit-love filled daugthers who still wear gurlly clothes!!
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[pykors]

Come to think of it, I don't know if I've ever seen a bit of "Intentional Parenting" be effective. It always seems to be the subtle tactics like, "oh here's a book I think you might like" that get into a kid's head.

By the way, hi Aunt Celeste! Good to see you here.

[sarahfim]

lol yea seriously. that's what i was going to say (about the dresses and the clips and the horror about bug-munching and whatnot).

there's hope.

p.s. did you know that a while ago little boys used to be dressed in pink, and girls in blue? but they changed it because they thought red was too stimulatory of a color for boys to wear. go figure.