A few weeks ago, I overheard my daughter Qi said in response to something that her sister was saying.
“Then I will marry my own Prince Charming!”
Qi, my coming-to-ONLY-3-years-old daughter is glibly talking about Prince Charming and marriage!
Non-mothers might not know it but I think parents of other young daughters are having the same experience right now.
Our girls are going mad about all these Disney Princesses!
Perhaps the rage for the Disney Princesses started when a magazine called Princess was published. So far I managed to limit my girls to only three issues because one issue cost nearly $5 and reading material of this kind does not last long in our household.
However I know of other parents who buy every issues and last month when my husband and his friends went to Singapore, I was amused to learn that I was not the only wife who told my husband to get the latest issue.
The men failed but one wife got the coveted issue from Kuala Lumpur!
Both my daughters know every single one of the Disney Princesses although they’ve only watch “Beauty & The Beast” and a little bit of the “Sleeping Beauty” which we bought only last weekend.
When it comes to drawing, my daughter Eu draws nothing else but Princess pictures - with Aurora from the Sleeping Beauty being her most favorite subject.
They regularly paraded around the house with my mother in law’s old sleeping coats as their princess gowns, announced themselves as the princess-of-the-week and demanded that everyone else addressed them as such.
And we have had a “Belle”, “Ariel” and of course “Aurora” over the last several months.
Qi however is less princess-y and she assumed both the princess and the villain. More often than not, she preferred to be the “Wicked Witch” or “Wicked Queen” and lately, the “Evil Stepmother”.
And it’s not only the kids who are sucked into this. Mothers including myself are equally “in love” with these beautiful characters and it is only the question of cost that stopped me from decorating their room with Princess theme (except cheap stickers and posters from the magazines).
So, how Disney Princess-crazy are you?
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