What we’re reading on the blogs today:
Towards the end of last year, Disney announced that Tangled would be their last fairytale movie. The moms at GeekMom are conflicted: One the one hand, an end to fairytales (a gender-disguised way of saying “princess movies”) means an end to “frilly dresses, glitz, and helplessness of the princess,” it’s also means an end to one life-lesson delivery system. The post points out that what we think of as princess-y qualities (vanity, helplessness, Prince Charming-obsessed, self-centeredness ) don’t actually match up Belle, Jasmine and Ariel. The GeekMom post is lengthy, but well worth the read. Where do you stand on princesses?
The Wall Street Journal published an essay Saturday on “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior.” Superior here means raising more children who are stereotypically successful than their Western counterparts. And raising kids who get picked first for sports teams means jack. Likewise the star of the school play. Or kids with excellent social skills. (Not to say that those Asian moms won’t raise the well-socialized kids, just saying that it’s not the metric used to measure success)
