Why would i condone my child wanting to be a princess?

Question

why is that "ok" in the US? esp since um, we won war w/England/Britain...??? we as a nation loathe royalty..yet seems perfectly ok to allow our lil girls pretend to be such.

Answer 1

How young?  It is probably not good if you teenage daughter has made it her life's mission to marry a prince.

Answer 2

It's a phase many little girls go through.  Think of it as an opportunity to teach her gracious manners and deportment, and get ready for her to want to be a nurse or a movie star.

Answer 3

My problem with the princess thing isn't the 'royalty' issue, it's how out of control parents allow the princess thing to get. Playing dress up once in a while, and liking disney princess things is great, but I think the child ends up getting so saturated with the unreal princess ideals that they don't form their own views about life. There is no prince charming white horse life being handed to you, not that being optimistic is bad, but I think princesses give the girls the wrong idea.

And don't even get me started on bratz dolls. They're forbidden in our house. My boyfriends daugther had a pair of bratz sneakers that her grandma bought her. They came off, went in a bag and stayed there until she went home (she had other shoes). Bratz dolls are just big headed barbie prostitutes.

AND BARBIE... the other day I saw an ad for 'baby doctor barbie' Is it so hard to teach kids the word 'pediatrician'? They go to one, why not teach them the word. Its not like its... oh. I don't know PROSTITUTE.

I'm so grumpy today. Our society (the us) has a weird obsession with royalty. We still focus on royalty from other countries, and name certain families 'royalty', and make movies based on princes and princesses and the underling who ends up the Queen.

Answer 4

blame walt disney....he's the culprit.

Answer 5

we dont hate royalty, we just dont want them interfering with our lives. i think its totally fine to let ur little princess be herself. its better for her to think herself a princess than to have low self esteem and try too hard to fit into some other mold that she is not comfortable with. the higher she thinks of herself the less you have to worry about her being influenced by those "bad seeds". shell be a leader rather than a follower and wont feel like she has to do what her friends do to be cool.

Answer 6

Come on what is wrong in pretending to be a princess.  I have a beautiful daughter who at 17 would say " But mummy I'm a princess, and princesses don't have to work."  Playful manipulation perhaps but it worked. To us she is a princess and always will be...

Shes 20 now and works driving a 28 tonne dump truck hardly a princess's career, is it?

Answer 7

omg calm down! Your kid is just pretending! Its called imagination and its a GOOD thing! Let her be a child, otherwise you are being a bad mother!

Answer 8

chill out they are just pretending, no little girl is really stupid enough to really believe she is a princess, let them use their imagination a lil