By Martha Irvine, Canoe News NetworkAll the pink, frilly and sparkly — from the princess dresses to the pink castle in the playroom — isn’t necessarily what Caroline Morris would choose for her eldest daughter.
She doesn’t want to stop her six-year-old from being who she is. But as princess fever has reached a new high with this generation of girls, she and other parents are feeling the urge to rein in the would-be reigning ones, just a little.
That’s especially true in tough economic times, when more parents are focusing on messages of frugality and humility that, they say, just don’t fit with the princess mentality that has become a rite of passage for many girls.
Morris knows, of course, that some parents think such worries are ridiculous.
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