https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:48:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513410 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:37:45 +0000 MaisyMay 2513410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Total princess toddler mom over here. My LO loves processes, t-ball, throwing things, and I love it. I grew up an absolute tomboy and it had been fun. Dh gets a bit overwhelmed by the pink though.<br /> First pic was about a month ago, second was a few months before Christmas </p> [attach=407/16/o4zouy.337x600.20160229_165623.jpg] [attach=407/16/o4zouz.337x600.20150722_223251.jpeg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513208 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:17:30 +0000 sorrycharlie 2513208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: sigh. I want to be Princess Kate when I grow up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513207 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:17:08 +0000 sorrycharlie 2513207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebugsmama: lol well, I mean mainly true, but for little kids I don't love the idea of telling them they can't be anything - no matter what it is! Imagination while they have it :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513119 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:09:17 +0000 mediagirl 2513119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She isn't a princess but she loves them. My husband told her she could put some pictures from her princess sticker book up on her wall. She was so happy. She laid down on her bed, looked at them and said, "Wow." So freaking sweet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513112 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:01:53 +0000 MrsBrewer 2513112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anonysquire: Aww!! So cute! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513086 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:42:48 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2513086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513076 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:38:04 +0000 Mamaof2 2513076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebugsmama: yes you can :wink: </p> [attach=4342/16/o4yzvg.474x600.kate-middleton-open-peterborough-city-hospital-08.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2513062 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:26:11 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2513062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: well I mean you literally can't be a princess... It's not a thing you can become! Just pointing that out I am just following along, interested. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512963 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:33:52 +0000 sorrycharlie 2512963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SugarplumsMom: agree. "You can be anything you want! Except a princess. Don't be that." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512776 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:19:14 +0000 LovelyPlum 2512776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: oh my gosh, E and that crown!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512773 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:18:55 +0000 LovelyPlum 2512773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travelgirl1: I read somewhere recently that it's important to tell your kids that they're beautiful all the time, not just when they're dressed nicely. I can't remember where, but it stuck with me. Like, it's OK to say you're beautiful when she's dressed up and pretty, but it's also important (maybe even more so) to say it when she's got bedhead and is covered in dirt. Because you can be beautiful no matter what you're wearing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512768 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:16:46 +0000 LovelyPlum 2512768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: I didn't know that, congratulations!! :heart: </p> <p>I come from a long line of strong, confident, stubborn as hell women. Both of my grandmothers have been single (one divorced, one widowed) for nearly my entire life, and they're both still going strong at 87 and 91. I knew my great-grandma, who lived to be 97. I've got 6 aunts, each with a personality bigger than the other. My mom is tough as nails, and I've got 4 little sisters. There was bound to be girly stuff in my daughter's life, and that's OK. But the best thing my mother and father taught us was that we needed to learn how to be self-sufficient to the extent possible, and that we need to believe in ourselves, no matter what. I recently told a friend that the only thing that I needed men for was to conceive my child :silly: That's not entirely true, of course, and I adore my dad and husband and have a few good male friends. But I can stand on my own two feet and fully intend to teach my girl to do the same. I'll probably also buy her a few sparkly dresses along the way, as well :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512758 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:08:06 +0000 ShootingStar 2512758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LovelyPlum: "I don't think it's bad to say that my girl is a princess, as long as the connotation isn't that she's a damsel in distress who can't think for herself. As long as she's strong, confident, and loving, we're good" --This is exactly how I feel. I'm expecting a daughter right now, so I don't have experience yet with a girl. But I feel like pink and sparkles and tiaras are awesome. Being a damsel in distress and in need of a male to be rescued is not something I want my daughter to aspire to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512743 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:00:07 +0000 travelgirl1 2512743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is obsessed with party dresses, she must wear one every day and she is really into the princess thing, especially Frozen. I am fine with it for the most part. But I honestly don't like that my three-year-old talks to me about being pretty like a princess. I don't mind her playing princess, but I hate that prettiness is on her radar at her age. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512720 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:47:59 +0000 Mamaof2 2512720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep and she likes to curtsey in every photo now :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512707 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:42:48 +0000 LovelyPlum 2512707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SugarplumsMom: that picture :heart:</p> <p>I will readily admit that I love Disney but am turned off by everything in the house needing to be princesses, etc. We have friends whose house is like that, and it drives me bonkers. Same with boys' stuff, too. I'm OK with character-driven things, but ALL of it, ALL the time? It would start to get on my nerves.</p> <p>On the other hand, I don't think there is anything wrong with her wanting to love what she loves! And boy oh boy, does my girl love her "pincesses." She loves to dress up and watch her pin-cess movies, but I do try to expand what she's exposed to, so she can see what else she loves, besides the princesses. She can love pink and be sparkly and wear tights and climb trees and be smart as a whip, and none of those things are mutually exclusive. Plus, I can find good qualities in any of the princesses, if I look hard enough. And articles like this make me think there's not anything wrong with her watching and loving her princesses:</p> <p><a href="http://www.literallydarling.com/blog/2015/12/22/can-disney-princesses-can-be-feminists/" rel="nofollow">http://www.literallydarling.com/blog/2015/12/22/can-disney-princesses-can-be-feminists/</a></p> <p>(Ironically, I struggle with Elsa, or more so, Elsa's parents. I actually really hate that for the majority of that movie, they/she deny her true self and hide it from family. I hate, hate, hate that message. I think it's crap, bad parenting, and sends a horrible message. But it's her favorite right now, so there's that. But I do not in any way ever want to teach her that she should run away and hide from her family because they don't like who she is. I'm MUCH more of a fan of Anna. I don't quite get the craze with Elsa.) /rant</p> <p>Annnnyways, yes, I don't think it's bad to say that my girl is a princess, as long as the connotation isn't that she's a damsel in distress who can't think for herself. As long as she's strong, confident, and loving, we're good :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512679 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:29:58 +0000 Charm54 2512679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, we just got back from Disney World and she was ALL OVER the princesses. Since we've been back she's worn a different princess dress every day. Mulan is her absolute favourite ... I love it because she's such a strong princess ! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512674 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:26:12 +0000 anonysquire 2512674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. Everyday she is to wear a dress and fancy shoes. And she always says "I princess Amber" from Sofia the first. She is so obsessed. And I think it is SO fun!!! What a fun age!!! Oh and she always has to hold her dresses and shirts out like this when she walks haha! </p> [attach=1857/16/o4yo7o.600x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512508 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:30:16 +0000 looch 2512508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it is very interesting how our feelings evolve as parents. I was never specifically antiprincess, but I know there were a lot of posts on here about being anti-Disney, anti-princess, whatever. Then, as the kids start to show their interests, the parents start to pull back and realize that it's not a hill worth dying on and that just because a child is into something doesn't mean that certain realities are going to occur.</p> <p>I think it's great to let kids explore, the worst thing to me is being firmly anti-something and forcing children to hide it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512506 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:28:46 +0000 youboots 2512506@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm enjoying this post as the Mom of a 1 year old daughter. ❤️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512469 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:39:46 +0000 catlady 2512469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2.5 year old is turning into one. So far I've contained it a bit so she's more like a girly-girl than a princess. She loves jewelry, dresses, fancy shoes, hair accessories, and her play makeup set. Everything has to be pink or purple or blue. We're going to Disney soon and I've held off on buying any princess dresses to bring with us but it wouldn't surprise me if we came home with one. She hasn't seen many movies with princesses yet but she's already obsessed with Elsa, Anna, and Sofia the First. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512467 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:33:46 +0000 Rockies11 2512467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is into watching princesses, and getting into princess dresses. I don't understand the anti-princess stuff. I am anti-forcing kids into gender stereotypes so we have a variety of toys and so forth, but whatever she gravitates towards I am okay with. I don't know anyone who watched Disney in the 80s and really internalized needing a man to save them, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512466 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:31:38 +0000 Cherrybee 2512466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! I hate the princess thing (I have some genuine issues with the messaging the media and society gives to young girls that has, really, very little to do with dressing up and imaginative play) but E LOVES it and the only thing worse than a parent who forces their child to "be girly and pretty if you want boys to like you" is one who denies their child the opportunity to be whoever they want to be. My MIL said, the other day, "Why do you want to be a princess? Why can't you want to be an engineer?". I replied 1) The point, surely, is that she can be anything she wants to be and 2) This isn't career options day, it's imaginative play! She can pretend to be anything - a teacher, a firefighter, a cat - and it wont limit her to that option for life! I have bought E princess jewels &amp; a tiara because I know she loves dressing up and its just harmless fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512463 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:24:50 +0000 pwnstar 2512463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SugarplumsMom: I give your post two big fat thumbs way way up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512458 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:18:06 +0000 OhCaptain 2512458@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lovehoneybee: us too! My son JUST saw frozen for the first time and he loves it. He does the exact same thing as your son. One of us is Elsa, the other is Ana and he usually decides his baby sister is either Olaf, Sven, or kristoff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512453 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:15:59 +0000 NavyRN2012 2512453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! She loooooves her princesses! It started with Sofia the First, and became an obsession with Frozen. She also loves tractors, Legos, and getting dirty, but it would be perfectly fine if princesses were her only interest. The anti-princess crap is pathetic. If a boy's sole interest is sports or tractors or something else typically "boyish", that's okay, but a girl can't love something typically "girly"? Way to promote gender equality/neutrality. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512444 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:02:51 +0000 lovehoneybee 2512444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha my 3.5 year old rough and tumble boy was telling me the story of Frozen yesterday, and told me I could be Queen Elsa and he'd be Princess Ana :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512404 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 02:31:40 +0000 lamariniere 2512404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter really enjoys princesses and is overall very girly. It's something she totally discovered on her own. We aren't anti-princess, but we also don't buy princess stuff. All of her princess stuff was gifted and she loves to dress up and trot around the apartment and say "look, I'm pretty"! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512395 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 01:33:49 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2512395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. She's 3.5 and loves all things princess. I was a tomboy growing up and before she was born, I was hoping she would be into other things - and she is - but she's also very much into princesses. It all started with the Play-Doh videos on Youtube and I'm totally fine with that. </p> <p>I am appalled by the amount of anti-princess propaganda. I can not comprehend how adults would send out a message that would negatively label a child by a simple interest. I get that people are against consumerism and all its negative aspects, but a message that says my child will be a bimbo stripper because she happens to like pink and fluff is taking it a bit too far. Adults SHOULD be able to send out an uplifting message without having to put someone down to do it. </p> <p>My daughter likes crocodiles, pink, glitter, princesses, trains, worms, and muddy puddles. To her it's all the same because it is. It's adults that make the labels and adults that prompt the little girls in videos that complain about how they "can be more than princesses" --- BECAUSE THEY CAN BE MORE AND BE A PRINCESS TOO! /endrant :happy: </p> <p>To that, I have to add a picture I took a few days ago. She set it up all by herself :heart:</p> <p>[attach=1448/16/o4xzke.600x600.IMG_0610.JPG] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-else-have-a-princess#post-2512383 Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:33:08 +0000 sunny 2512383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter loves everything princess! She's such a girly girl. I don't know where she gets it from since I'm not super girly. I love it though! </p>