Sesame Street Teaches Young Girls that Princesses Can Play Football
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I was watching Sesame Street this morning with my 10 1/2 month old daughter Jaelyn. The episode was called "Princess Show" and when I hit Play on the DVR, I cringed slightly...I figured it was going to be a bunch of reenactments of fairytales where a damsel is in distress and a handsome prince has to save her.
Boy, was I pleasantly surprised! If you have 10 minutes and need a good chuckle, watch the whole sequence below (Paul Rudd is fantastic by the way). If you only have a couple minutes, fast forward to 7 minutes 50 seconds and watch it through the end for my favorite part.
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Q McCall
"Your Royal Handsomeness, you do realize she's a penguin?" lol
"That's not how it happens in the storybooks! I'm supposed to rescue the princess!"
Men! ;)
There have been quite a few research studies that have looked at academic effects and "children's understandings of complex issues such as death, love, marriage, pregnancy, and race relations." Some positive, some negative. But I've never seen any specifically looking at gender.
http://elp.georgetown.edu/linktext.cfm?lid=8
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,00.html
I wonder what Jaelyn "took away from this" or how specifically it could be leveraged for her development. Maybe you should interview her. ;)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 9:58am PDT
AnnGaff
Ha! She has lots to say all the time, so I'm sure this time would be no different.
One thing I know is that children, even as young as she is, do not miss a thing. They take their cue from your reactions. We may be asking for trouble, but when she pounds on her highchair tray or throws a toy on the floor we clap and get excited. When she falls down, we don't rush to comfort her unless it was a pretty bad fall.
The result? She's loud, she's curious, she's brave, and it's hard to surprise or otherwise rattle her.
I had a big brother that played sports with me all the time. It never occurred to me until I got to elementary school that girls were supposed to be the weaker sex! That's when I realized it was "odd" that I could run faster than all the boys and was often stronger as well.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 10:05am PDT