The Princess Party has come and gone and Ruby is none the worse for wear. Despite the omnipresent generic princess decor, Ruby has yet to ask to be saved from any dragons (although she does need rescuing from the occasional uncooperative button). Ruby chose to dress in her bee costume (her other option was ladybug) [...]
Princess Party Redux
April 27, 2009
Pretty Pretty Papa Princess
April 22, 2009
It was bound to happy sooner or later. Try as we might to shield Ruby from the infectious outside world, we knew that eventually she’d be exposed. Sending her to preschool only increased the odds, and now, finally, it has happened: she’s been invited to a Disney Princess Birthday Party. Kate and I both anti-princessification, [...]
More on Princesses
December 27, 2006
Kate’s Mom sent us a very good article from the NYT about the Princess trend. I expect to be dealing with a lot of the issues raised in the article over the next few years. This paragraph from the article sums up my objections pretty handily: “Playing princess is not the issue,” argues Lyn Mikel [...]
Don’t Think Pink
November 30, 2006
We’re anti-pink in our household. It’s not just that we don’t like the color (which, for the most part, we don’t). It’s also one front in our battle against the princessification of our daughter. We want Ruby to be an independent thinker. We want her to experience every color of the rainbow, and then decide [...]
Hope for the Princesses
October 14, 2006
Ruby and I went down to the park yesterday. She rolled around on a blanket while I kicked a soccer ball around the field. After I’d been there a while, a few girls (maybe 10 or 11 years old?) came by and started playing a game. Guess what they were playing? FOOTBALL. There were no boys [...]