I don't quite know how I want to handle this one so I thought I would hear some enlightened perspectives before making up my mind. My almost four year old daughter has never played with Barbies (at least at our house and maybe only once or twice at playdates) and has been TV free- and comercial!! esp.-, and only occasionally through a toy isle that has Barbie... but she's obsessed. Grandma got her a small kit of Cinderella, Belle and Show White 3' dolls- she calls them her Barbies...and is convinced she is having a Barbie Birthday in Jan.---Then she wants to hear the stories of Cinderella and Snow White, and before I've even talked about what I don't like about these stories, she's play acting that one of her 'Barbies' needs to get a husband!!!
I can't wrap my head around how this is ok... or how she got so excited about this 'fem' stuff... or why she's not so excited by Groovey Girls instead... sure it's likely a phase- that's what growing up is- a series of phases.. but as women... likely feminist women... how have you delt with this with your daughters?
I can't wrap my head around how this is ok... or how she got so excited about this 'fem' stuff... or why she's not so excited by Groovey Girls instead... sure it's likely a phase- that's what growing up is- a series of phases.. but as women... likely feminist women... how have you delt with this with your daughters?