Have you noticed how some little girls want to wear princess outfits all the time? Parents wonder if this is normal and if they should do anything about it. I have some thoughts on this. Back in the day, when my kids were young, they used to dress up. Sometimes they would pretend to be a princess, but they didn't have this stereotypical idea of what a princess should look like. Nowadays, little girls see princesses and pink everywhere, so they think they should dress up this way. I think there is something about dressing up that is wonderful. It uses the imagination. Children love it, but I think parents need to also pay attention to how they might push that agenda on their children sometimes. When your daughter dresses up in her princess outfit, make sure and not go gaga over it all the time. Let it be. Let them pretend. Maybe they will do it for a whole year, they want to be a princess. Don't let that be the focus of all of your attention. It may just be a phase, but how you respond to it might make it last longer or shorter. Also, see if their are other models of children of books and videos of little girls who dress other ways. It is not a bad thing, but our consumerism sometimes pushes an image on a child more than what they would come up with if they were doing it on their own.