Comments on: Favorite Things Monday: Focus on Favorites

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:27:02 +0000

The bratz doll battle is one I have fought for years now. They are evil, ugly and outright offensive to me. Miss E thinks otherwise but has finally learned that she may look at them until her eyes fall out, I am not buying one nor do I care how many dollars she has saved, she is not buying one either. Whomever thought those things up should be pelted with chopped-up pieces produced when a lawnmower meets the bratz.

Good luck with your courses. I’m sure you will do just fine.

By: Haddy

Haddy — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:09:35 +0000

I HATE those Bratz dolls. I think they might be worse than the other B -word: Barbie.

By: PainterWoman

PainterWoman — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:55:41 +0000

Glad the fundraiser was a hit.
Glad you found “ART” (and the Flickr toy)
Re LM and Bratz… I don’t know how old LM is… but what I often did with my little one was start asking him about his thought process. “What do you like about the Bratz?” “What do you think ____ would say about them?” You learn lots about your kid (usually stuff you didn’t know, AND they know you are interested in them, not just interested in imposing yourself on them.
I’ll never forget when my then 3 yr old daughter asked me about “the F-word, Mama?” I hemmed and hawed for a while and asker her what SHE thought the F-word meant.
“FART, Mama.” I was so relieved I didn’t correct her. Later when she understood it all, she didn’t need to ask.

Hope your week is a good one.

By: Pi Grrrl

Pi Grrrl — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:29:50 +0000

Congrats on the fundraising and on your handling of LM’s fascination with those scary creatures.

By: Cynical Knitting Gal

Cynical Knitting Gal — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:12:25 +0000

I am totally impressed with your steadfast search for Art, which looks like a great book!

I absolutely cringe when I see those Bratz dolls on Lehu (nee DP)’s neices holiday lists. Oh, and holiday lists are an irritation that I won’t get into right now…

You are a great Mama! Carry on.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:25:25 +0000

Awww…mutual. those little animal onesies in there are to die for.

Re: explaining the Bratz, I have only two things to say, neither particularly constructive: 1) Is LM too young to start reading I Blame the Patriarchy? And 2) Thank goodness there are women like you raising sons, because jeezum pete does the world need more boys with feminist mamas.

By: Cetta

Cetta — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:50 +0000

My 5-yr old insists that she WILL get some of those dolls. Ha! I ’splain to her over and over that those dolls are not for her but like you said how do I explain WHY I don’t like them?

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:07:53 +0000

Now there’s even a Bratz live action movie. Z has been asking for the dolls and to see the movie. I have told her and R that we don’t like those dolls because the name Bratz means that they are disrespectful and we don’t approve of being disrespectful to other people. And they know that I mean it - yesterday I dragged them out of a turnpike Burger King (without paying or eating) because the staff were being incredibly rude about our order.

And yes, I’m having “Adult Child of PC Parents” t-shirts made for their high school graduations!

By: Britt

Britt — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:51:58 +0000

Event- Congrats!
Crappy weekend - hope this week is better
Littleman/dolls - I am glad that someone else sees the oh so inappropriateness of those dolls. Keep trying, at some point (maybe when he is a bit older) he will understand
Art- That looks like a nifty book I will have to check it out

By: Sneaksleep

Sneaksleep — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:30:16 +0000

At least you’re treating LM as a person who can understand a reasonable explanation for not liking those dolls. And if you keep at it, even if it doesn’t appear to work every time, it will sink in. For some reason in reading this, I was reminded of the Golden Books I had as a child. They were all full of black magic marker, where my mom had crossed out the gender stereotypes (so that little Suzy was just as likely to be playing with her favorite truck as with a doll). Parents really do make a difference.