Another day, another reason not to read the gossip magazines.
I’m flicking through one of these (a bad habit I know), and my head begins to explode:
Why is Miley Cyrus still getting so much (media) coverage? Continue reading
Actually BabyBoy doesn’t yet know who Rapunzel is. This is a story of a friend’s little boy, as told by her:
“So, the kids had to dress up for school. Friend’sSon, 3 years old, wanted to go as a princess, Rapunzel to be exact. There was no way Friend’sHusband was having that. In the end he bargained with Friend’sSon to go as Spider-Man.” Continue reading
I am currently reading the book ‘Cinderella Ate My Daughter’. I haven’t finished it yet but I’m already getting stressed….and BabyGirl is only 18 months old!
But here’s one way that I’m thinking I might deal with the relentless onslaught of skewed messages that seem to be heading BabyGirl’s (and BabyBoy’s) way.
‘It’s not real, honey.’
Princesses have been in the news recently. Not actual princesses (although Kate Middleton’s pregnancy continues to make headlines) but fictional princesses, most obviously the Keep Merida Brave campaign.
Hong Kong’s Security Secretary stirred up a media firestorm recently with comments advising women to drink less alcohol in light of the recent increase in rape statistics in Hong Kong.
I’m not going to debate the rights and wrongs of a public official making such comments in this post. I want to look at this from a parenting point of view. As a parent, will I encourage my daughter to avoid getting drunk? Absolutely.
This blog challenge keeps on going! Another Tuesday and another Ten Thoughts Tuesday post.
Here are this week’s musings:
1. Oops, almost forgot to write this this week!
2. BabyBoy and BabyGirl seem to be getting one bug after another.
3. I’m hoping it’ll build up their immunity…
4. BabyBoy is going through a super-cute phase of launching himself on me for hugs – love it!
5. ‘Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be’ is such an awesome quote that I’m thinking of having it framed and put up in the nursery.
6. But I’ll delete the word ‘daughter’ so that it can be relevant to BabyBoy as well as BabyGirl.
I saw this quote and just had to share it:
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
– Clementine Paddleford (early 20th century journalist)
How wonderful is that?
There’s a lot written about raising strong, independent, educated girls. However, now I have both BabyBoy and BabyGirl. And the article extracted below raises an interesting question – we spend a lot of time raising our daughters to be more ‘like men’, but are there attributes of raising daughters that we are neglecting to pass on to our sons?
