[penelopesire]

When I read stuff like this, it makes me glad I had a son! I would not have known what to do with a ‘princess’. I was a baseball playing, horseback riding, skinned knee tomboy...lol.

[JillValentine]

My dad would say that between me and my brothers, it was like he had three sons instead of two sons and a daughter.

[pandoraou812]

You sound like my 9 yr old daughter, Sassy. She has the claim to fame in our neighbor of out climbing & out running all the boys, even the 12 yr olds. She likes her dresses at times but would rather be in jeans or shorts & a plain t shirt. There will be no short shorts for her or shirts with tacky slogans. I hate seeing the mini me’s with their mothers in the malls. I avoid malls as much as I can. I want my daughter to have a childhood as long as she can. There is no rush to grow up or have a boyfriend in our house.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

When I read stuff like this, it makes me glad I had a son! I would not have known what to do with a ‘princess’. I was a baseball playing, horseback riding, skinned knee tomboy...lol.
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We’re kindred spirits there, kiddo! ;-)

[El Gato]

I was a baseball playing, horseback riding, skinned knee tomboy...lol.

Yea well, that sounds like my younger daughter, who bought her sister's daughter one of those scratchy princess dressed for her 4th birthday. :)

I'm only the father/grandfather, what do I know? The four year old seemed to like it though. She's gonna be just as independent as her mother and aunt, so I'm not worried, except about when I have to buy her a gun, or even before that when I can take her shooting. Oh, and IF, I'll be able to buy her a gun when the time comes. Now THAT is something to worry about. Not scratchy little girl princess dresses.

[SuziQ]

We only have one daughter, and she wouldn't be caught dead in overly girly stuff. We were watching one of those tv shows about weddings last night, and were just howling at some of the requests of these brides. Both of them, in interviews, kept talking about how every little girl dreams of having a princess wedding. Uh, no.

Ours was small, tasteful, and my husband and I paid for much of it, ourselves. His parents gave us money to set up a Rehearsal dinner, and told us if we could do it for less than they gave us, we could keep the rest. We spent just about all of it, though. My parents paid for the pictures and the flowers, both of which cost less than $150. My older sister made my wedding cake which was scrumptious and beautiful, and my Aunts got together and made a ton of food which we had at Mama and Daddy's after the wedding. Of course, this was 1975, and in Mississippi, so the custom wasn't the big, splashy dinner and dancing, yet. It's appalling what folks end up spending on weddings these days, even modest ones!