When CinderSilly Started
by, Diana B. Thompson
When my daughter was little I watched her and her friends play princess games for hours. Though she had never seen a single animated princess movie in our home, she knew them all. She pretended to be each and every one. Despite my own commitment to fill her princess perceptions with empowering stories, the role playing games were anything but liberated. When I asked what princesses do, I was woefully informed: ‘They sweep, they dance, they wait to marry a prince.” I knew then I could not battle the cultural saturation of the princess role model. It was my job to redefine it. So, the CinderSilly movement began.
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