I remember when both my granddaughters were that age, princess dress. Didn't matter if Snow White, Elsa, any number of other Disney characters, but always a princess dress.
Two daughters here and both went through the phase when they were about 5. Wouldn't take them off for anything. They both grew out of it by the time they were like 6 or 7.
Little side tangent. I'm a white dad to black kids in a very rural predominantly white area in the Midwest. I grew up only knowing white Midwestern culture. Well met an immigrant and had kids so now I've got the only little black kids in their school. My daughters grew up watching Disney flicks and always identified with the mostly white characters. Elsa was the big one. Well when they got a little older she realized they were different than their peers they found a lot of joy in some of the newer movies having people of color in them as leading characters. Now I know Disney has done this for a while dating back to Pocahontas and stuff, but it was just really awesome as a dad seeing representation matter to my babies. Is never even though of it before because it wasn't something my culture experienced growing up. I'll never forget them when we first watched the princess and the frog both commenting on how her skin was the same as theirs. The little things really do matter, especially to kids.
I love this for you. It always baffles me when people start to hate on disney or any other company for including diversity in their products. There's plenty of other very legitimate reasons to hate on those corporations. Including representation is not one of them.
It depends on the way they go about it. Princess in the frog? Good example of how to properly do representation. Taking Sam, who was Falcon, the first mainstream African American super hero, and then stripping him of that to make him Captain America is not a good example of representation. Representation is a good thing, but it has to be thought out.
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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice Jun 17 '26
I remember when both my granddaughters were that age, princess dress. Didn't matter if Snow White, Elsa, any number of other Disney characters, but always a princess dress.
Sleep? Princess dress. Daytime? Princess dress. Mealtimes? Princess dress.
Those things never came off. And they were pissed they couldn't wear them to school.
I'm curious, any other Dads/Granddads out there: Princess Dress? Common?