{"id":1147,"date":"2009-12-22T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/12\/a-princess-by-any-other-name.html"},"modified":"2009-12-22T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T12:04:23","slug":"a-princess-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/12\/a-princess-by-any-other-name.html","title":{"rendered":"A Princess By Any Other Name…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emilia doesn’t really care all that much about princesses. When I told her that we were going to go see Disney Princesses on Ice<\/a>,* she asked, “will they be playing hockey?<\/i>“<\/p>\n

— “No, but they’ll be skating.”<\/p>\n

“Will it be fast skating?”<\/p>\n

— “Pretty fast.”<\/p>\n

“Okay then.”<\/i><\/p>\n

We brought along a Snow White costume that she inherited from a cousin, which she insisted that she was not going to wear – “Can’t I bring my witch costume? Or Buzz Lightyear?” – until we got to the show and she saw her best friend decked out in her best princess finery, at which point she decided, as I had expected, that she would<\/i> be a princess, but only if she could keep her pants on underneath the dress, “because that’s where my pockets are, and I have stuff in there.”<\/i><\/p>\n

And so she did, and it was awesome. Because she knows that being a princess is just a matter of being your own darn self, sticker-filled pockets and all.<\/p>\n

\"budge-deals.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Some might quibble with me on that point. Some might – would – say that princesses are inherently problematic, from a feminist perspective, or whatever. I’ve waffled around on those arguments myself<\/a>. But then I see this…<\/p>\n

\"budge-white.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>…and listen to her explain how she likes how Ariel rescues the prince and how the girl-skaters are more fun to watch than the boy-skaters and how it was really smart of Cinderella to save her shoe and did Mulan really<\/i> fight all those soldiers and did I know that the bad fairy (from Sleeping Fairy) is kind of neat because she blows stuff up with fire?<\/i> and I think, whatever<\/i>. Because, my girl? She gets it. And if there’s a little sparkly princess action bound up in that it<\/i>, then fine.<\/p>\n

There are worse things. And who doesn’t love a bit of sparkle<\/a>?<\/p>\n

*Disclosure: we went as guests of MomCentral Canada. Thanks, MomCentral!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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