Ponderings on the princessy crap from primary school  (73 Posts)
Just wanted to gather my thoughts and yours really, and would
prefer not to make myself look barking mad to the school.  DD is
nearly 6, in yr 1. We are encouraging her to have a balanced
view I suppose - she loves to dress up as princesses/plays with
dolls etc but also does lots of climbing trees, camping, is
pretty fearless, not pandered to. DH is a man working in a
nearly all female profession.  From school she keeps bringing
home all these ridiculous 'certificates' - Star princess of the
week, 'special princess' etc etc. It is giving me the rage. I do
not want any encouragement of ah a delicate little special
snowflake because she is a girl stuff. I am thinking of going in
to school and asking them to consider making their rewards more
gender-neutral.  On one hand, many of the girls do like it, I am
sure DD likes it, but I would much rather she was rewarded with
a certificate for working hard or trying hard or something more
concrete and sp