Category: Daughters
Price of Princess | Does Fantasy Play Create Entitlement, Disappointment?
I recently read a magazine article in which the grandmother described taking her granddaughter to Disney and paying around $200 to have her transformed into a princess because the girl (literally) wished for that to come true at the Cinderella breakfast that morning. The grandmother chronicled how uncomfortable she was watching her granddaughter being [...]
KGOY | How Advertisers Are Sexing Up Our Daughters Younger Than Ever
Last year, I posted a photo on my personal blog of a shirt that blew my mind. It was the size for a kindergarten girl and it said “Kiss the Rim.” The shirt was supposed to be about basketball (I guess), but I couldn’t shake off the sexual undertone of that shirt. Raising three [...]
Confusing Females Further | Now We’re Airbrushing In Curves (Sigh)
I always cringe when I see my stepdaughters (ages 19, 23) reading fashion and female magazines. You know the ones–they consistently have some heroin-drug-skinny female striking a pouty pose and looking like the vast majority of the women in any society will never look like. I recently showed one of my stepdaughters the shocking [...]
Raising Daughters | Everything is Beautiful (Or, Is it?)
I tell my four year old daughter that she’s beautiful. I also tell her she’s smart, creative, funny and genuinely one of the coolest kids that I know. I tell her those last four things way more than I tell her the first thing, but still, I tell her she’s beautiful. Because she is … [...]
A Dad and Gender Roles | Meet My Daughter Carl
My daughter Qiqi is the cutest little girl. Born in China, she is petite but athletic with a sweet smile and beautiful inky black hair. Just don’t tell her she’s cute. She’ll punch you. When I first met her, she was a teeny-tiny four-year-old and hated being called cute. Everyone called her cute and that [...]
