Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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Doctoral student and mother of two blogs about academia, motherhood, and the many intersections of the two.
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5 comments:
My impression is that RB is a little bit of both. Obviously, Annabelle's personality is still a mystery!
Is it possible to remind your mom that children have a tendency to define themselves - at all costs? You know that my oldest is both a tomboy and a princess, and almost everything in between. She's happiest when she's wearing glittery shoes and the latest Limited Too fashions while digging up grub worms in the back yard---a true story!
AcadeMama, I have, in fact, washed mud from my own backyard off your oldest daughter and attempted to remove green glitter from my own daughter's hair after your daughter styled it. They are quite a pair. :)
Hmmm... yeah, I definitely don't like these dichotomies. Each girls should be both a princess and a tomboy. Girls should be whatever they want to be. Oh... and can I recommend to you the It's a Girl book that I revised in my blog a while back? You make like it, especially now that you'll have two girls...
(I wrote the comment without reading the other ones... I'm glad your daughter already is both)
I agree with everyone else that such definitions are trouble. My sister and I were defined as "the pretty one" and "the smart one" by our extended families respectively. While our parents went out of their way to remind us these titles weren't true and never defined us in that way themselves, we were still affected by these titles, and it really affected our relationship with one another. I think I would follow academama's advice and try to remind your mom that RB and AB will define themselves, and they will likely define themselves in opposition to however others try to define them.
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