Is too much exposure to Disney princesses bad for a lttle girl?

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Trivial compared to some of the other threads in this topic, I know, but need to know if I should just indulge 4 yo DD1's princess phase or if I'm setting her up for a lifetime of waiting for her 'true love' to arrive on a white charger and whisk her off to 'happily ever after' (yeah, right).
Going to bed now but am genuinely interested in your replies!

If you want a modern princess how about Petronella from Tomi Ungerer's book of Stories?

Bloody hell Anna. It's pretty outrageous to ask Bink "are you a frump?" because she has intelligently (and rightly, good posts from her I think) disagreed with you.

Haven't read all 11 pages on the thread but I do let my dd read princess/fairy stories - in fact, it's a job to find anything else in the library at the moment . I do make comments (is that the right word?) about Rapunzel should have got a haircut and climbed her own way out to freedom and the Prince in Sleeping Beauty has technically assaulted her by kising her when she was asleep.

Belle annoys me in Beauty and the Beast - she's always running around making the palace look nice for a grumpy old Beastwhen he wakes up in a bad mood. Bet he never brings her flowers when she's down! I quite like the demonic cat that hangs around the palace though .

Dear WWW - that's nice of you . In truth, I was much more put out at Anna's freakishly patronising last post to MI (of all people).

I have no problem at all being the butt - others are being got at bothers me far more!

stray superfluous "are" in the last clause there. Please mentally delete

There've been some eloquent, articulate, incisive points of view on this thread... and then there's been "Are you a frump?".

Franca, the little cat is called Huckle. When I was little we had a cat which my sisters and I named Huckle. (Not relevant to the thread, but I remember having a big argument with an Italian child "The mouse's name is Mickey Mouse" "No, it's Topolino" "No in America, he's Mickey Mouse", "No, he's Topolino" etc etc)

Mm, too right about the Prince assaulting Sleeping Beauty by kissing her in her sleep, the slimeball - and apparently that is NOT all he does in the original ... or it might be Snow White? Suffice to say it was no wonder she woke up.

gosh much much to deep

my little girl could read a disney book, and dress like a princess and not be reaised to believe that women are weak and thick.

now .... heres the thing.... this is down to me as a parent

rather than the HUGE influence you seem to give disney princess over our daughters.

my Influence is much greater.

all things in moderation - of course disney princess is ok unless you are some nutter of a mother who raises their child to marry only a prince and wear large skirted dresses all day.

unfortunaltey in the real world my daughter is well aware that education will only get her where she wants to be in life.

I just let my little one get on with the Cinderella/ Disney phase. I had to grit my teeth for about 6 months as I bought her over priced junk in the Disney Shop and she insisted on wearing those Snow White dresses to parties. But she came out of it the other end in one piece! She now shows zero interest in anything Cinderella/ Disney related. We're on to Pippi Longstocking now!

We've avoided DP stuff so far with dd (3). The version of Cinderella she loves is the Nick Sharrat one which ends with them marrying on condition they share the household chores! ds (6) loves the Daisy books by Kes Gray, I'm hoping dd will follow in his footsteps as they are great books for boys and girls with a great girl main character.

I think the DP thing is just part of the complete pinkifying (?) of (so called)girls toys. Last week in a tesco catalogue that came through the door was a "girls" Connect 4, presumably for girls as it is a pink version ffs.

Thanks welliemum . (lol: I remember the shock of discovering that Topolino and company had different names in different countries...)
Just actually realized that i haven't given my opinion re DP, but my bath is ready, so have to goooooooooo

If you're after good female role models in cartoons, try renting some Miyazaki DVDs. Classic Japanese cartoons now superbly redubbed. Absolutely brilliant and beautiful boys and girls in there - try Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbour Totorro, Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away to start with. And if you want a kick-ass princess, how about Princess Mononoke - she rides a wolf and she rocks. None of those films are over a PG-13 and most of them are U. They are a fantastic alternative to Disney. And they have some seriously good messages. Work hard, respect the earth, respect your elders...

Funnily enough, a box-set of Miyazaki is exactly what dh has got as dd (who's 7)'s main present ... though (mini-word-of-warning) she did admit to me the other day that she's "a bit scared" of Spirited Away ...

Howl's Moving Castle she loved, though.

Only one of my dds was interested in disney princess, and now, at 7 , she has been out of it for a couple of years. She also considers herself too old for Barbie.

I worry far more these days about the pressure on her to be thin and pretty than any desire for her prince to rescue her. Bratz, Hannah Montana and High School musical have far more influence these days unfortunately, and soon the bloody half naked, size 6 pop stars will be far more dangerous to my dd than DP ever will be or was.