Dress Dilemma
Posted on July 5th, 2009 at 2:19 pm by admin
The Gay Uncle takes on a new role this week: expert in the Tribune Newspapers’ new parenting column The Parent ‘Hood. Parents ask questions, other parents respond, and then Gunc (or some other know-it-all) dishes out their three cents. First problem? A girl who insists on wearing her princess dress. Everywhere. (And she’s not even a real princess!) Gay Uncle to the rescue. Click here to lose the pink acetate blues.
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About the Princess Dress and your statement, “You can’t run in it, and running is an important part of school,” I want to ask that we also apply it to the shoes children wear, especially girls. I am an elementary music teacher, and I get very frustrated seeing little girls wearing crocs, flip-flops (with pedicure), even heels to school. Running IS an important part of school, and important part of child development! Children, as well as puppies, kittens. . . all of God’s children . . . run and chase when they play. It is so sad to see a little girl try to flee someone chasing her when she is hobbled by her “cute” shoes. What does it do psychologically to a child to always be caught, always be “it” and never able to tag anyone?