http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/ Anyone else find childhood a little stifling these days? Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:48:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-51 The Secret Ingredient Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:30:17 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-51 Oh, how I share your Halloween stress! Last year I gave in to my older daughter and let her be one of the three thousand Ariels floating around our town for trick-or-treating. My little one went as a frog---because she loves frogs and she was too young to have any say in it (and she just looked cute as a button in her costume!). This year, I promised myself that I'd be stronger----and when the Halloween question came up, I too braced myself. My younger one, now a year older with more opinions, decided she wanted to be an ice skater. I came up with a gold medal and convinced her that an OLYMPIC skater would be great! My older one....well, it isn't a Disney princess----but she wants to be a ballerina, like her babysitter who is an actual ballerina. At least this year's costumes are ones based on athleticism rather than the Disney empire! Oh, how I share your Halloween stress! Last year I gave in to my older daughter and let her be one of the three thousand Ariels floating around our town for trick-or-treating. My little one went as a frog—because she loves frogs and she was too young to have any say in it (and she just looked cute as a button in her costume!). This year, I promised myself that I’d be stronger—-and when the Halloween question came up, I too braced myself. My younger one, now a year older with more opinions, decided she wanted to be an ice skater. I came up with a gold medal and convinced her that an OLYMPIC skater would be great! My older one….well, it isn’t a Disney princess—-but she wants to be a ballerina, like her babysitter who is an actual ballerina. At least this year’s costumes are ones based on athleticism rather than the Disney empire!

]]> http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-47 Academama Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:24:59 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-47 What a creative, fun idea! Oh how I long for the days when I could (and I mean this in a very good way) weave my own "agenda" into my daughter's plans. She's just too tricky these days. She wants to be a strong, rum-drinking, swashbuckling, ship-sailing pirate...but she wants to wear a cropped top to do it in! It's got me saying "Argghhh!" I think I'm winning the overall battle though: in all her 8 years, she has never been a princess, fairy, or any type of Disney character. What a creative, fun idea! Oh how I long for the days when I could (and I mean this in a very good way) weave my own “agenda” into my daughter’s plans. She’s just too tricky these days. She wants to be a strong, rum-drinking, swashbuckling, ship-sailing pirate…but she wants to wear a cropped top to do it in! It’s got me saying “Argghhh!” I think I’m winning the overall battle though: in all her 8 years, she has never been a princess, fairy, or any type of Disney character.

]]> http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-45 mom Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:34:31 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-45 Thanks, Anonymous, I'm happy to report that Thing 2 is only 10 months old and pretty much always takes a back seat to Thing 1 (who is 4)...except in the wagon, He always gets the front in the wagon ;-) Thanks, Anonymous, I’m happy to report that Thing 2 is only 10 months old and pretty much always takes a back seat to Thing 1 (who is 4)…except in the wagon, He always gets the front in the wagon

]]> http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-44 Anonymous Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:50:16 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/sweating-feminist-anti-marketing-bullets-over-halloween/2007/09/26/#comment-44 I just came across this blog and I find it very fun and interesting! A Fern costume would great, but I hope that Thing 2 doesn't feel he's taking a back seat to Thing 1! I just came across this blog and I find it very fun and interesting! A Fern costume would great, but I hope that Thing 2 doesn’t feel he’s taking a back seat to Thing 1!

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