My 6 yr old has watches Cinderella, SnowWhite and Sleeping Beauty over and over again

[LadyLiffey]

Is she too young for me to say something joyless like

"you know, these girls should spend less time thinking about being beautiful and marrying a prince and more time deciding what they want to be when they grow up".

???

I'd say yes, she's too young.

i say this all the time. i change the ending of the princess and the pea so the princess refuses the prince on account of his shallowness. never too young for some common sense.

My dd 4 does this too but I loved fairy tales so don't have a problem with it.

DD has got a lovely imagination which she carries over into roleplay I'm sure it's partly due to the fairytale world she lives in. I'd much rather it was fairy tales than Barbie DVDs. Having said that dd seems to like the evil characters best

We've got several versions the Nick Sharatt ones have a bit of a modern twist.

Also we've got The Paperbag Princess which she loves about a princess with a paperbag for a dress who tells the prince to get lost and fights the dragon herself.

get her Mulan and Beauty and the beast. Much better stories for girls

Dd is way into fairy sories too.

our version of Thumbelina is very irritating. Just why does she ahve to marry the mole? And why doesn't she just go with the swallow the first time he asks? Pathetic!

And Rumpelstiltskin. What's that all about? Your dh threatens to kill you unless you turn whatsit (straw??) into gold - and when he doesn't you live happily ever after. No grievences there then....

Is Mulan a bit different from the usual plot of beautiful girl wins the prince, because she is the most beautiful and demure??

Cod recommneded somthing ages ago as being a good film for mothers to go and see with daughters. I wish I could remember what it was....

It's just a film

She will be much more influenced by you as her mother than what Disney has to offer

My dd wants to be a microbiologist, she has no idea what it means, because that was my job

She loves fairy princesses too, but she dosen't dream of growing up and marrying a prince

Mulan is the princess who goes and does the fighting herself. It is a brilliant story for girls compared to a lot of all the other Disney shite. The heroine is brave and sparky and basically saves the day.

When dh is reading dd a story he says, "and they all lived happily ever after. And Cinderella went to University and became a doctor".

Sometimes a lawyer.