disney princess dress and biracial child please read

[Aliceacc]

Your kids are gorgeous, though personally I would not be comfortable posting their pictures.

Kids in costume are playing dress up. None of them actually IS the princess from the movie. And every single kid who puts on a costume looks different in it. The kids know that, and they get it.

I would choose to avoid the wig; it's going to be hot and humid in FL in a wig. Besides, your girls have gorgeous hair; why would you encourage them to cover it up??

Please teach your kids to be proud of who they are. They don't have to look like someone else's idea of what a princess should be.

My son was adopted from Korea; I'm of Irish descent and my husband's family is Italian. And we're all American. My son is gorgeous, but in a different way from my daughters, who are mine biologically instead of through adoption. Teach your daughters to be proud of their heritage.

I can't imagine that any other person in the parks will have any second thoughts about how your daughter looks in that dress, beyond "Oh, how cute!!! She's in a princess dress!!"

Have a great trip!

 

[momontheright]

I didn't click on your pics and I am sure your children are adorable but I would really remove those links as soon as you can. It pays to be mindful how much personal info you place on the internet especially when it comes to your children.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

My Caucasian daughter has a princess Tiana costume that we bought at the parks right after the movie came out. She looks great in it.

My half black/half white niece has worn all of my daughter's older costumes as she grows into them; so she has been Minnie Mouse, Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel and Aurora and no one has ever made any comments about it.

If anyone ever does I would probably just give them the evil eye and move on. They are not the type of people I would want to waste my time on.

 

[Freesia123]

It's just a dress! That would be like saying I couldn't buy the same dress Mariah Carey wore because I'm white. Makes no sense.

 

[RoosMama]

I don't think anyone would even notice!!

Hopefully to dress up as Tinkerbell, little girls don't have to have wings.

 

[ScotsMinnie]

My blond haired, fair skinned little girl chose to be Tiana on the last trip. Surely they can dress up as any princess they want to? I think its quite sad that a Mum feels this way about her daughters choice of dress up.

 

[LindseyDuck]

My little princess has special needs and is in a wheelchair. I have dressed her in every costume that's been given/bought/borrowed for our trips. It makes no difference her skin tone or ability to walk and dance. Just go and enjoy your trip, regardless of who she dresses up as!

 

[Lita]

Let's see....my African-American daughters are dressing up as Cinderella, Belle, Rapunzel and Aurora on our upcoming trip. I am sure your bi-racial daughter will be just fine. Not sure why she wouldn't look okay. The child doesn't have to have the exact same features as the princess of the dress they are wearing.

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[SamSam]

OP, if you're still reading please let your daughter be whoever she wants. Kids are colorblind, as we all should be. If she wants to be Cinderella, Ariel, or any of the Princesses, let her.

Dh and I have multi-racial grandchildren and nephews, our family is truly colorblind and I hope eventually everyone is.

 

[ariellover84]

My kiddos are mixed Black, White, and Puerto Rican. They look Hispanic more than anything. My daughter will be dressing up as Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, and Minnie on our upcoming trip. Her brown skin never factored into what princess she would like to be.

 

[Teacher Princess]

My kiddos are mixed Black, White, and Puerto Rican. They look Hispanic more than anything. My daughter will be dressing up as Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, and Minnie on our upcoming trip. Her brown skin never factored into what princess she would like to be.

Well said !! My daughter dressed up as a princess Rapunzel last Christmas and she has a beautiful black hair like Snow White.. And we are puertorrican as well .. Have fun and don't worry about what others might said or think.. !!

 

[Patience]

My youngest daughter is Asian. Her favorite princess is Belle because she likes books just like my daughter does. For our trip in September, however, she is wearing Cinderella's wedding dress to BBB and to Cinderella's castle afterwards for dinner. She was the flower girl recently at her cousin's wedding and really wanted to wear one of the princess wedding dresses at Disney World. We tried Rapunzel's wedding dress on but she said it was itchy and preferred the feel of Cinderella's dress. Whatever she wants is fine with me. She did pick out a Mulan t-shirt from the Disney store and will wear that with a tutu skirt to Epcot because she also happens to really like Mulan (she likes that Mulan has long black hair like hers and likes her movie) but I certainly would never insist that she wear only a Mulan dress. She's also dressing up as a princess pirate for her Pirate's League appointment. So much cuteness- I can't wait!

 

[nmtdisney]

I believe let her wear the one she wants to! When I was a kid I wore Cinderella when I had really dark hair and I was really white and I should of dressed as Snow White! But I believe it's better to let her wear what she wants

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I have my doubts about the veracity of this post, but, because I can't help myself, I am going to point out that Brandy played Cinderella in a TV musical version in 1997. Prince Charming was Asian. Although his parents were Caucasian and African-American, so I guess he was adopted.

 

[redsonja76]

Your kids are gorgeous, though personally I would not be comfortable posting their pictures.

Kids in costume are playing dress up. None of them actually IS the princess from the movie. And every single kid who puts on a costume looks different in it. The kids know that, and they get it.

I would choose to avoid the wig; it's going to be hot and humid in FL in a wig. Besides, your girls have gorgeous hair; why would you encourage them to cover it up??

Please teach your kids to be proud of who they are. They don't have to look like someone else's idea of what a princess should be.

My son was adopted from Korea; I'm of Irish descent and my husband's family is Italian. And we're all American. My son is gorgeous, but in a different way from my daughters, who are mine biologically instead of through adoption. Teach your daughters to be proud of their heritage.

I can't imagine that any other person in the parks will have any second thoughts about how your daughter looks in that dress, beyond "Oh, how cute!!! She's in a princess dress!!"

Have a great trip!

My daughter is adopted from Korea too! She loves to be all the princesses, I would never pigeon hole her into only Mulan. Besides, Mulan is Chinese, not Korean.

 

[Camshell]

Firstly I think you should let your daughter wear whatever dress she wants. Teach her to be proud of her skin, her hair, her heart, her mind, and how beautiful she looks in whatever dress she chooses.

Secondly, I do think there is a perception that children are colourblind and race doesn't matter, but as an educator, and white mother to a brown child my experience is that is not true. Race does seem to matter. Here is an article for those that are not familiar with what I am sharing - http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/africology/faculty/upload/children_colorblind.pdf

Children do experience "racism" from adults and other children at a young age (i.e. as young as 4-5) . They are told by other children that their skin is dirty, that their eyes or hair is funny, that they don't want to play with a dirty friend, etc. My young Asian daughter had kids doing the eye pulling gesture with accompanying derogatory rhyme.

While I personally haven't seen an incident like this at Disney, I wouldn't be naive to think that it couldn't happen by another child or an adult while there. The OP has had an incident like this with her child before. I think it is fair for her to ascertain how the "climate" is at Disney for racial comments to be made to her family.

Many folks in the field of race studies agree that celebrating differences (i.e. multi-cultural, multi-racial, etc.) does more to reduce racism than being "colourblind" to race.

 

[Camshell]

Firstly I think you should let your daughter wear whatever dress she wants. Teach her to be proud of her skin, her hair, her heart, her mind, and how beautiful she looks in whatever dress she chooses.

Secondly, I do think there is a perception that children are colourblind and race doesn't matter, but as an educator, and white mother to a brown child my experience is that is not true. Race does seem to matter. Here is an article for those that are not familiar with what I am sharing - http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/africology/faculty/upload/children_colorblind.pdf

Children do experience "racism" from adults and other children at a young age (i.e. as young as 4-5) . They are told by other children that their skin is dirty, that their eyes or hair is funny, that they don't want to play with a dirty friend, etc. My young Asian daughter had kids doing the eye pulling gesture with accompanying derogatory rhyme.

While I personally haven't seen an incident like this at Disney, I wouldn't be naive to think that it couldn't happen by another child or an adult while there. The OP has had an incident like this with her child before. I think it is fair for her to ascertain how the "climate" is at Disney for racial comments to be made to her family.

Many folks in the field of race studies agree that celebrating differences (i.e. multi-cultural, multi-racial, etc.) does more to reduce racism than being "colourblind" to race.

I should have added a great book the OP might want to check out and read with her daughter is Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman. http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Grace-Mary-Hoffman/dp/0803732600
It is great kids book that deals with the concept of "princess stereotypes", race, and culture.

 

[SweetMissy]

Seriously???????? Let the child pick whatever princess she wants. Are you concerned about what other people may think? Who cares? You're her mother and should be supportive of her choice--not to steer her into perceived "type".

What she said!

 

[brockash]

My daughter wants to dress up as cinderealla belle rapunzel or snow white i really would like her to dress as tiana since she is half black and half white she wants to wear these in disney world she has the afro type hair and i do not if she should dresd as one of these princesses with her,being more darker skin do you think she eould look ok in the parks dressed like this

OMG!!! I can't believe this is even a question???? Seriously??? I feel horribly for you and your dd if you guys really live and surround yourselves by others who ever think this should/would be an issue. Who cares if she's purple...let her dress up as whoever she wants to.

 

[Denine]

My daughter wants to dress up as cinderealla belle rapunzel or snow white i really would like her to dress as tiana since she is half black and half white she wants to wear these in disney world she has the afro type hair and i do not if she should dresd as one of these princesses with her,being more darker skin do you think she eould look ok in the parks dressed like this

I have seen girls of all colors and races dress in whatever princess costume they want. They all look cute!