I pretend I'm someone who is teasing her or saying mean things and she just has to say, 'I don't care.' or 'Who cares what you think?' I don't mean to raise someone disrespectful but someone who knows whose opinions matter and whose don't - something that 95% of the human population has yet to grasp and yet is vitally important to healthy, well-adjusted girls!Īnd THAT is DEFINITELY NOT the moral of the story in this little picture book. Huh? What about teaching 'I don't care what you think'? That's not a concept beyond a 4yo girl - in fact after reading this book I practice it with mine all the time. Only when she sees there is another person that likes pink is it ok to like pink again. but what does this main character do? Become moody, emotional, depressed, lonely, and ends up caving to peer pressure by trying to give up liking pink. Now, I'm a feminist so I'm all for girl power books. Why do I care? Because 95% of this book is 'cool girls' teasing this girl about liking pink. Problem is the study shows a correlation between an increase in social aggression in media and an increase of the 'Mean Girl Syndrome' in elementary school kids. In the last two minutes they resolve the conflict hoping the kids see the moral of the story. 'Educational Cartoons' like Arthur regularly have a conflict focusing on social aggression between classmates and friends. the stuff you see on the movie Mean Girls). Blast! I had a whole review written and my wireless internet dropped and I lost the whole thing, but I feel strongly enough about this book to rewrite it.īackground info: in NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children there is a chapter that cites a study about a decrease of violence in cartoons and an increase in 'social aggression' (i.e.

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