01.24.2011
Rob passed along the following video that’s from a new segment on the Today Show about parenting. Today’s topic was about daughters and the push for pink and princesses. Author and mother, Peggy Orenstein whose book Cinderella Ate My Daughter, was a guest talking about the sexualizing of girls and how the push for girls to be beautiful and sexy is getting younger and younger.
A psychologist on the show wasn’t able to present evidence to show prove or disprove Peggy’s argument and said that there weren’t enough studies done to look at the consequences but that it ultimately is up to the parents to be role models. Your children will learn to behave from you and they will learn what to value from you. The most important piece of advice the psychologist had to offer, though, is that if you let your children watch TV, to open up communication about what it is their watching.
Unfortunately, there’s no link to post it up on blogspot (only twitter and FB), so here’s the link to the video (It’s about 6 minutes long.):
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