Love this kid.
While at the park I am asked (commanded) to play the princess while she is the hero.
She is absolutely obsessed with the super friends.
For months I have been the batman to her robin.
Recently she has decided that wonder woman is pretty cool because she gets a lasso. However this is a dilemma because wonder woman does not have a utility belt or a cape. She is currently compromising, she is wonder woman while capturing bad guys. F.Y.I I am cheetah and Chris is Lex Luthor. We get captured with the lasso and thrown back into the legion of doom, again and again and again. However for your average keeping the streets clean hero activities she sticks to her robin persona.
All this brings about a parental quandary for me. For Halloween she wants to be Robin. I totally want to encourage her in her fabulous quirkiness but do I want to risk her feeling left out when all the other girls in JK will most likely be princesses?
While at the park I am asked (commanded) to play the princess while she is the hero.
She is absolutely obsessed with the super friends.
For months I have been the batman to her robin.
Recently she has decided that wonder woman is pretty cool because she gets a lasso. However this is a dilemma because wonder woman does not have a utility belt or a cape. She is currently compromising, she is wonder woman while capturing bad guys. F.Y.I I am cheetah and Chris is Lex Luthor. We get captured with the lasso and thrown back into the legion of doom, again and again and again. However for your average keeping the streets clean hero activities she sticks to her robin persona.
All this brings about a parental quandary for me. For Halloween she wants to be Robin. I totally want to encourage her in her fabulous quirkiness but do I want to risk her feeling left out when all the other girls in JK will most likely be princesses?
2 comments:
That is a tough one. Personally, I'd let her be Robin and chance the trauma for a chance for her to learn to be herself no matter what people think about her - but there may be more heartbreaking. I think the harsh experience of being an individual is a price we have to pay in order to not be followers.
I would possibly mention to the teacher that Elora would like to be Robin for Halloween and did she think that would but Elora in the postion of being a target. It is a crap shoot with JK, most of the kids would careless at that age, but you also may get that one "know it all" who will turn it into a big deal.
She could be one thing at school and go trick or treating as Robin.
I would probably let her be Robin.
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