Poor Tinkerbell

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Grandma Atchley got Sophia a fairy outfit for Christmas. As soon as she opened it she HAD to put it on. Just this last month she discovered the Tinkerbell movie, and also really loves it and is attached to it and all things Tinkerbell now. So the fairy costume was a perfect fit for the phase she is in right now. The only time she hasn't worn the dress is to bed or when we go out somewhere. Otherwise, that dress is on her--period!! The first night of having it I convinced her to not sleep with the wings because she would bend them, a reasonable argument she agreed with. So she slept with just the dress over her PJ's. By the time the second night came around she had ripped the dress in 2 places and now our parental argument was that she could not sleep with the dress because we didn't want it to rip more. She was still fussing and whining a bit over that, and so BJ in a firm, but gentle voice tells her she cannot sleep with the dress or the wings due to the aforementioned potential damages and comes up behind her, grabs the dress to stabilize it a little so he can grab the velcro on the wings and pull them off. It took her a little by surprise, but she wasn't upset or freaking out about it. After more discussion we decided to let her sleep with the wings in the bed with her.

now I say "Poor Tinkerbell" because from my point of view the situation seemed slightly different. Here is a child--tired, whining, confused--having someone come from behind her, by surprise essentially, and rip her wings away from her and pull off her dress. It was the WAY in which it happened it really seemed like some ethical violation. She is having something she holds dear to her taken away from her by force. Upon reflection it made me think of that scene in the classic Disney Cinderella movie where the stepsisters see Cinderella wearing some of the their (abandoned) clothes and they run over to her in a vicious manner and pull all these things off of her. Cinderella is standing there swirling in a tornado of clothes and these girls spewing hateful things to her. While this is going on she is shocked and confused and ultimately she runs away crying. At least there wasn't crying on Sophia's part, and we weren't saying hateful things, but tearing at her clothes might have seemed just about right from her perspective.

I know this seems like such a random thing to post about, but this stuck in my mind so much. Plus I had planned on some kind of Christmas post anyway that would have ended up including some information about this new fairy costume. So all in all, what do I want you to take from this post? My husband is a terrible person. Parents, watch out for your children if they have wings........(edit: There are so many violations of good taste in this post. I think she's been surfing the internet too much - BJ, wing destroyer)

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  1. Rachel TaylorDecember 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    LOL poor Fairy Princess!

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  2. AdrianDecember 29, 2008 at 11:29 PM

    Yeah- gotta be careful with that parental authority sometimes.

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