This book has changed the way I intend to raise my daughter. Mothers today are perpetuating the old stereotypes of women without even knowing it. We buy everything "princess", decorate our daughters bedrooms in pink and dress them in pink & lace. When you think about it, what's so wonderful about the Disney princesses anyway? They don't have female friends, their lives are fairly empty and in most cases pretty awful until, of course, they meet the right man. Look at Snow White...the prince falls in love with her because of the way she looks, dances & sings. Most of the time she's asleep so how can he really fall in love with her when he hasn't had the time to get to know her? How about Cinderella? Her life is so awful yet she never even has a thought about escaping or otherwise helping herself. Instead, she is rescued by a man, who falls in love with her following a single dance. Did you ever notice that every picture of the Disney princesses shows them looking away from one another? They never get together to help one another. How about The Bratz and other dolls for the girl a little older? They too care only about the way they look and what's "cool" but now they have attitude to go with it. What messages are we sending our daughters with these themes?
Unfortunately, how girls feel about themselves depends on how they look and what they choose to do is driven not by their own desires but rather what they're told they should do. My daughter, Olivia, is currently 6 years old and already she is concerned about the way she looks, what others may think of her and what's in fashion! She has been innodated with images of what a girl should look like, how she should act and what's considered "pretty." She is barely 50 pounds and once told me she was "fat"! All her classmates are the same way. A desire to look nice is fine but when it dictates how you feel about yourself, well that is not fine. When the image of what we should look like is unattainable, like those girls on the cover of Sixteen magazine, that is not fine. When girls foresake their own desires in order to "fit in", that is not fine either.
This book explains what girl culture really is and more importantly, how corporate & media forces created it and continue to control it. You will be outraged when you discover how these forces have manipulated us and how we mothers are now part of the problem because we've bought into this without realizing what we're doing to our daughters. IF YOU HAVE A YOUNG DAUGHTER YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK NOW and if your daughter is grown, send it to her so she can learn about the ways in which she has been manipulated. Once your eyes are opened there's no going back and you will never be the same.
I've learned more about parenting a daughter from this book than I have from any other source of information and I hope the changes I make, because of what I've learned, alter the course of my daughter's life for the better. Without this book, I would have continued to blindly support a culture that restricts girls and tricks them into believing that who they are and what they should want is exactly what Disney and others tell them is desirable. Every girl deserves the benefits that come from a mother who has read this book!
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