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Do Fairy Tales Give Young Girls False Hope?

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 I don't know about you girls, but last time I check I don't live in a castle.  I was never whisked away by some prince on a regal horse & the cute little animals in the forest have never come to help clean my house!

Should we be telling our daughter the harsh truth?

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glamorous_mami
Lol. I'm a blunt person and ill tell my DD that fairy tales aren't real lol but I have a while till she understands
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juanswifey06
As a child I didn't think they were forreal. But idk I only have a son
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CountryLatina87
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My dad use to tell me when I was younger I was gonna take some guy's breath away.  When I was younger, my friends and I would talk about our prince charming whisking us away on his horse.  My dream I told them was getting proposed in front of family and honeymoon in Monterey.  And when I met my husband I can say my fairytail did come true.  Everyone is different.  When I have a daughter I will tell her the same thing my dad said.  When she gets older, a guy will take her breath away and her prince will come ridding on a horse in GODS time

Krise

 We didn't do diseny movies so much when the kids were younger. I let them know, mainly Aloria that it is just a movie. It's not real. I don't think I should be calling or treating my daughter like a princess, and I don't see why others do. I don't judge them mind you, I just don't understand that.

libelulalatina

I tell my 7 years old daughter that everything can happened in a movie. And for books,  I don't really explain much.

Madrecardinal

It depends on how you look at it.  Sleeping Beauty can also teach girls to follow their hearts even if it means going against family.  Actually that movie teaches boys that because it's prince Philip who goes against his father wanting to be with Princess Aurora before he knew she was the princess.  The little Mermaid also teaches the same thing.  Beauty and the Beast teachers girls that true  beauty and love comes from within and that it's a nature of a persons character that you should fall in love with and not just their looks.  Aladdin teachers girls that they are the true deciders of what their future should entail.