She's not a princess...

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Yes. I detest it.

I plan to point out Storm, if Storm's a girl, is not a member of the Royal family. (I know I have a title, but still not enough.)

I also plan to tell people I will not dress my daughter in princess tops. Any given will be handed back. I did this with Liebs. I know, I am ungrateful. But tasteful.

[meow]

Yep- there is no way I'm putting any clothing that says "princess" on my daughter.

I'm tossing up adding "please, no princess comments" to a birth announcement. It will just **** me if people say it!

[RainbowRiver]

Going against the crowd and I'm 'one of those' mothers that calls their girls, a princess. I don't however but clothes that say that. I have no issue with the word or reference to my girls. In my eyes, they are my princesses

[Bloom]

Personally, I don't call my DD a princess, nor would I let her wear clothes that say princess. Occaisonally others will say "hello princess", but I just ignore it.

My reasoning is that I feel that calling a little girl a princess is teaching her that she is "royalty", deserves special treatment, has others serve her and gets her own way. In my parenting style, I am big on teaching that we need to learn to help and be kind to others and that it is a good thing to "serve" others. I love my DD obviously, but I don't want her to think that the world revolves around her and her needs.

[meow]

I don't like the term princess because I see it as emphasising stereotypes of beauty and fluffiness without being a substantial character. I never (very rarely) hear boys being called a prince so I feel the term is really used to emphasise femininity.

I also think it can be a derogatory term such as "stop being such a princess!" and to label girls as princesses implies in some part that they are those "annoying female" types who act like divas.

I don't see it as an empowering term and I see no need to harp on about a child's gender in such a stereotypical fashion from the day their gender is known.

[beansbeans!]

I call my girls princesses, because they are my princesses. I used to dislike the term, but Ive had a change of heart over it. I also cannot stand the idea of making girls wear pink and boys wear blue, I dislike that boys are defined as being rough and tumble, dirty, 'feral' children. Gender definitions suck.
We don't define princesses in our home as the hollywood 'princesses'. It is also not a term defined by beauty or fluffiness, and someone lacking character. The term princess in our home means strong, intelligent, independent, kind hearted, community minded, honest, caring, loving, confident. The princesses that my girls know of are this and more, so are my girls for that matter. According to my girls, I am the queen and dh is the king of our family. If we had a boy then yes he would be our little prince.

In so many cases, the definition and meaning of a word or term can be either positive or negative and what determines that is at the way it is seen.

I will admit that out of 3 girls, we have one shirt (size 1 or 2, fitted the 2yr old tantrums at the time ) that refers to them being a princess in training, otherwise nothing else refers to them as being princesses.