Saturday, February 25, 2006

Quiz-Girls


Last night, I drove the Lone Star Girl and two of her troop-mates to and from the Junior Girl Scout meeting and most of the car time was spent with the girls making up quizzes for each other, complete with A, B, C & D answers and neat little stereotypical labels at the end depending upon which letter-answer they most frequently chose. While it is no New Moon, I generally consider that American Girl magazine of theirs (I know that is what inspired this burst of creative quizzing) to be pretty pro-social, if awfully cheesy, but my! It's pretty much all in good fun and cute and all, but it does remind a mom about the need to vigilantly keep pointing out the inaccuracies of stereotypes (fashion diva, tomboy, cool, geek, spender, saver, etc.) lest they start seeing their realities so simply.


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