For years, little girls have dreamed of being a princess in a pretty pink dress, but has it got too far? Peggy Orenstein wrote “Cinderella Ate My Daughter” just for the parents of those little girls. It is a 244 page book that was published by HarperCollins in January 2011. Peggy Orenstein is an award winning author, editor, and speaker. Orenstein’s book describes her adventure of raising her daughter, Winnie, in today’s society. This book is not just another boring parenting book. It is humorous to read in addition to eye opening for parents and those who are considering parenthood, even young women. She ponders ideas like the reasons for the demand of beauty, why is Winnie so drawn to the color pink? It appears that young girls are becoming …show more content…
This was the beginning of Orenstein parenting choices to keep her daughter from being a stereotypical princess obsessed girl, and instead being a girl with a well-rounded head on her shoulders. In Orenstein’s book she writes as a worried mother. The book is written through her point of view and personal experiences with Winnie. She has a internal battle with herself that helped the several parents because Ornstein wrote her person battle down and shared it with the public. Orenstein admits to doing research on the toy industry like Disney, American Girl, and Toys ‘R’ Us. This book is goes much more in depth than one women’s opinion because of her research.
Ornstein is concerned about the world that her daughter will live and what judgment’s will be made of her, just because she is a girl. Like most parents she is concerned whether she is making the right decisions in raising her child. She talks about how easy it would be to just remove all of these princesses from her daughter’s life, but that would not fix any problems. Orenstein does not want to keep her daughter from being feminine, but she tries to find a happy medium of reasonably girly and completely consumed with be a girl. Parents are totally in control of their child’s values, if large companies like Disney can manipulate children, so can their parents. Where