another bra size IQ heard from...
Posted on 10/17/2018 5:06:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Although Kristen Bell absolutely loves reading to her kids before bed, she admits she's sometimes skeptical about the "lessons" her girls — 3-year-old Delta and 5-year-old Lincoln — are learning from Disney princesses.
"[Story time is] truly my favorite part of the day," Kristen told Parents. "I glance away from the book and see their brains working while we're all cuddled up like meerkats."
The 38-year-old actress says that despite playing Anna in Frozen, she has reservations about some of the messages in the older princess stories.
This is a modal window.The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. "Every time we close Snow White I look at my girls and ask, 'Don't you think it's weird that Snow White didn't ask the old witch why she needed to eat the apple? Or where she got that apple?' I say, 'I would never take food from a stranger, would you?' And my kids are like, 'No!' And I'm like, 'Okay, I'm doing something right.'"
Kristen also makes an important point about consent, as Snow White never gives the prince the go-ahead to actually kiss her. She makes sure she brings up the issue to her two girls as they're reading.
"Don't you think that it's weird that the prince kisses Snow White without her permission?" Kristen said she asks her girls. "Because you can not kiss someone if they're sleeping!"
And yes, now we're definitely thinking twice about the books we pick to read to our children before they hit the hay.
I’ve heard of other parents that ban all princess playing, books,movies. I was shocked but I guess it is a new thing.
Disney “borrowed” or stole from centuries old tales (and some more recent like Peter Pan and Winnie The Pooh).
But the “new” (gay) Disney is “good” for kids?
Feh.
didn’t the parents abandon Hansel and Gretal? The witch wasn’t the only mean one...
and all those evil/wicked step-mothers berating girlchidlren that aren’t their own offspring
I looked it up, I thought you were joking!
Best to ban princess tales lest your son want to be one!
Sounds like the culture war going on right now...
Jesus,
Let them be children. They will be dealing with the ugly cynical adult world soon enough! Let them be children...
Lol far better names than a faucet and a car.
This is the nitwit who refused to marry her b/f until fags could.
It’s Fantasy you knuckleheads -geesh
we seriously need a screening process for who gets to be parent
“Disobey your father and marry outside of your species.”
Nothing wrong with that. She’s a natural slut s/
Little girl does exactly what her father tells her not to and lives happily ever after anyway.
another bra size IQ heard from...
She’s going to wet her pants when she gets to the spaghetti scene in 101 dalmations.
Did she give her cars human girls names?"
Well her last car was called Christine, but it wasn't very reliable. In fact, it seemed to have a mind of its own.
And the other half of Disney films show that animals are our friends and that all we need to do is be nice to them and they will be nice to us.
It is what I call the Disnification of the world. As an avid outdoor person, I have heard wild stories from park ranges that had to deal with people that wanted photo ops of their kids with bison, elk, moose, and bears.
And then there is this award winner.... the dad that wanted his family to experience a bear. To accomplish this they made a trail of marshmallows up to their tent. The bear followed the trail right into their tent. Heard that the Dad was critically injured and did not hear about the injuries for the mom and kids.
First-runner-up was an older lady (dressed all in pink) that prance out of a huge motorhome in a state park on the northern California coast. She saw the ranger putting up very colorful posters warning about the dangers of mountain lions. She calmly announced to the world at large that, “There are no mountain lions around here”. I could not help myself. I agree with her that there couldn’t be. And if she truly believed it, that the ranger did not have anything better to do, and that she needed to go back to LA. She was shocked. She wanted to know how I knew that she was from LA. I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe. She ran back to the big motorhome and they left.
How many original 1959 Dodge sedans were destroyed to produce “Christine”? Eighteen, IIRC.
It’s personal. My MIL was the original owner of a 1959 Dodge Custom Royal. It’s safe in a storage shed.
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