Overheard: Just an Ordinary Girl
Eden, age nine, while playing with these toys from her Kinderegg:
“I’m just an ordinary girl with ordinary dreams. I just want to win this nascar race and bring home a bag of gold to my man.”
Hmm. Is that an improvement from this conversation at age six?
What’s the funniest gender role conversation you’ve had with your kiddos?
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March 27th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Oh this is a good one, and a great reminder of the old one. That’s the world I’m living in with 5.5yo Kaileigh. Princesses everywhere and shoes, and makeup, and more shoes.
We just had a conversation a few weeks ago about the kinds of cars that she wants. I asked her why she didn’t want a motorcycle, and she told me that girls weren’t allowed to ride motorcycles.
So then I found myself in the odd position of trying to encourage my daughter to ride motorcycles when she turns of age. It was slightly surreal.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Once when my daughter was about 4 (now 9, a la Eden) and had finished “cleaning up” her room, she opened the door with a flourish, and said
“Welcome… I’d like you to meet my husband, Mr. President Bush.”
Not too sure what the conversation was after that, too stunned to speak.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
My husband performed a magic trick where he produced a rainbow silk scarf. Two-year-old Ian draped it around his neck and announced “Now I’m a princess!”
Not technically a conversation, since no one corrected him.