I'm so tired of the anti princess stuff. My 3.5 year old is all princesses, all day, every day. She could tell you any obscure fact about each one and her movie, her palace pets, etc. She wears a dress daily, and usually changes her outfit at least once into a dress-up gown. With matching shoes, naturally.
I'm so not girly but I love it. I love the confidence she has when she's dressed up, too! She's smart as a whip and obviously has other interests, but she is a total "princess" at heart!
grapefruit / 4731 posts
That sounds super cute! I only have boys. 
I love princesses also! I get why people are anti princess but I still love princess and I want more, Disney please make more princess movies!!
grapefruit / 4085 posts
Yes! Even though I was kind of anti-Disney at first, I love seeing her love of all things princess!
pomegranate / 3275 posts
Mine is! She just turned six at Disney and was turned into Rapunzel! I don't see an issue with it, as long as she thinks she needs to be rescued by a man (though I do think Disney is doing a much better job at creating strong princesses)
grapefruit / 4584 posts
My nearly two year old doesn't know specific princesses, but anytime there's quiet in the house, I can pretty much guarantee it's because she's dragged a stool over to her sister's dresser and has about 10 necklaces and 20 bracelets on. She doesn't like to leave the house without a tutu (or three), which she puts on herself. It's cute, and it's hilarious, because she's one tough little cookie - not the one you would necessarily expect to love all things sparkly and ruffle-y.
eggplant / 11824 posts
Here! LO is know as Disney Wikipedia at school because she knows everything about every Disney princess and every word to every song. We were at Disneyland last week celebrating her inner princess at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique!
blogger / nectarine / 2600 posts
My 2 year old doesnt know princesses at all. I am a huge girly girl myself and wish she was but I guess Im not doing a good job of indoctrinating her so I guess thats on me.
grapefruit / 4455 posts
Nope, my daughter is more into the trucks and trains and stuff, but she's in a class of way more boys than girls, and I never really got into the princess stuff. She liked Frozen for awhile which was cute. I try to follow her lead though, if it's princesses so be it! If my son likes glitter and tutus, that's cool too. We don't have to be anti-anything!! 
coconut / 8430 posts
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!
bananas / 9227 posts
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.
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.
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
To that, I have to add a picture I took a few days ago. She set it up all by herself 
pineapple / 12566 posts
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"!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
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 
persimmon / 1447 posts
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.
kiwi / 696 posts
@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.
papaya / 10570 posts
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 & a tiara because I know she loves dressing up and its just harmless fun.
persimmon / 1363 posts
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.
grapefruit / 4988 posts
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.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
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.
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.
cantaloupe / 6923 posts
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!
cantaloupe / 6885 posts
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 !
eggplant / 11408 posts
@SugarplumsMom: that picture
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.
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:
http://www.literallydarling.com/blog/2015/12/22/can-disney-princesses-can-be-feminists/
(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
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
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
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.
coconut / 8472 posts
@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.
eggplant / 11408 posts
@ShootingStar: I didn't know that, congratulations!!
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 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
eggplant / 11408 posts
@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!
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
@SugarplumsMom: agree. "You can be anything you want! Except a princess. Don't be that."
nectarine / 2821 posts
@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.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
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.
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
@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
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
@Mamaof2: sigh. I want to be Princess Kate when I grow up.
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
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.
First pic was about a month ago, second was a few months before Christmas
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