The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls through the Princess-Obsessed Years
How to Raise Empowered Girls in a Princess World
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It's no secret that little girls love princesses. Behind the twirly dresses and glittery crowns, however, sits a powerful marketing machine, encouraging obsessive consumerism and delivering negative stereotypes about gender, race, and beauty to young girls. So what's a parent to do?
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The Princess Problem features real advice and stories from parents, educators, psychologists, and children's industry insiders to help equip every parent with skills to navigate today's princess-saturated world. As parents, we do our best to keep pop culture's most harmful stereotypes away from our kids, but contending with well-meaning family members and sneaky commercials can thwart us.
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The Princess Problem offers language to have honest conversations with our kids and shows us how to teach them to be thoughtful, open-minded people.