[blparent] What's up with that?

[Elizabeth Cooks]

I would say that's a lesser reason. there are much biger reasons for why 
raising girls is harder.Girls have choces jsut like boys, you just have to 
offer them.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] What's up with that?


> So true!  I guess the best we can do as parents of girls is to do what you
> did--provide other forms of entertainment and choices besides just
> princesses, and other colors besides pink!  No wonder they say raising 
> girls
> is harder!
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:04 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] What's up with that?
>
> Hi.  I'm not sure if this has to do with blind parenting, but I was really
> surprised today.  I went out to get plates and cups and things for Sarah's
> second birthday party, which will be in a week and a half.  I went to a
> party goods store with a sighted friend.  What surprised me was that there
> were tons of great party choices for boys--lots of colors, lots of
> characters like Elmo, Sponge Bob, Pooh Bear, Mickey Mouse.  I chose Thomas
> the Train because Sarah has gotten to like him lately, and because the
> plates and cups and napkins are colorful, so if I get paper tablecloths 
> and
> the like, they'll easily match with what we bought.  But when we cruised
> down the girls' aisle, it was all princesses.  Cinderella, Ariel, Sleeping
> Beauty, Snow White--the whole crew of helpless damsels--and it was all 
> pink.
> What's up with that?  Only one color?  And all princesses?  I was
> disappointed and kind of concerned about the message that must be sending 
> to
> a whole nation full of impressionable little girls.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
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> the hunters.--African Proverb
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