Barbie dolls are staring at me.

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My 8 year old daughter keeps asking me to draw her barbie dolls for her.

She has yet again put barbie in a princess dress next to a barbie bloke dressed as a prince, put them on the sofa (in a pose for me to draw) and buggered off into another room leaving me to draw them.

They are staring at me and I am fed up of drawing them cuddling each other/dancing/proposing to one another/ carrying each other etc

AIBU to not like scary, starey barbie dolls? WIBU if Barbie accidentally fell out of the lounge window?

(I was always a Sindy girl myself!)

YANBU I liked Sindy too

8yrs old?

Can't she draw them herself?

I wouldn't mind playing along but not if she's buggered off to another room.

Can you draw a hard hat on Barbie, an overall, steel toe capped boots and site manager tabard and dress ken up as her labourer?

She can still wear lippie!

Or, a doctors jacket and Ken as a porter.

You get my jist?

Worra - I keep asking her to draw them herself, she likes me to draw them and then she adds details and colours them in, she tells me it is because I am really good at drawing them

I have told her in the past that if I have got to draw them then she can atleast sit there and watch me!

Atree - I might try that, she'd be very annoyed with me for not drawing a princess but it would be fun!

What Barbie should look like today

Tell her even princesses have to design and build their own palaces these days.

Then suggest she designs and draws her own palace. .

You need one of these colouring books. Faint outlines are there and my DD adds clothes, hair, shoes & then colours!
Lots to choose from.

Don't worry. They can't see you. Their eyes are only painted on.