Good for you! I feel sory for women trying to raise girls in today’s world. I had my neice and her daughter living with me for awhile and was horrified at the slutty barbies and Bratz dolls at the toy stores. I finally bought an old fashioned dollhouse and got my great neice involved in decorating it etc., but even that was fraught with cultural rot at times.
OMG, dont even get me started on Bratz. Sluts in training. No Bratz in this house. Why parents would spend money on this trash amazes me.
My parents got a little doll house like that for my granddaugher! It was not painted, so you can paint it yourself. It had some furniture and a couple of little hand-painted dolls. I painted it, but it took me awhile. (my hands get numb at times)I like to do crafts like that, but it’s hard to do too much of it anymore because of that!
It took me a long time to get it done for her; but she discovered it in a closet. (I still wasn’t quite finished with it)She wanted so bad to play with it anyway! So I let her go ahead and play with it! Most of the painting was finally done, and the furniture too.
What I had trouble getting finished, was the little curtains and chair covers to put in it, I just couldn’t finish it. But the little girl, bless her heart, told me she wanted to play with it anyway! She and I just stuck tiny stickers on some room for pictures, and got dollar-store toy furniture to supplement the few pieces already in it.
Then we stuck the little pieces of material I had bought for curtains on with glue and tape! That might not last long, and we might have to have a more permanent solution to sticking them on. But heck, the child finally got to play with her dollhouse! She loves it! Even if it wasn’t a fancy, trendy barbie or other commercially made dollhouse!
I was walking through the mall with my mom and my fiancee and we walked past the Libby Lu store. Two girls, prolly about age 7 were having a store party. They were wearing silver spandex low rise hiphuggers and sparkly tube-tops with teased hair, skanky looking silver eye-shadow and body glitter all over the place. Two older overweight women who I assume were the mothers were laughing and high-fiving each other.
My mom and I were disgusted, but my fiancee actually went up to one of the moms and asked her what her daughter charged for an hour. we ended up leaving the mall quickly when this woman started yelling at him.