In addition, she witnesses her daughters grow up with Barbie influence. Smiley believes that Barbie dolls can be role models for young girls, and she also thinks girls like Barbie because with the doll they can discover new things, girls define their femininity, and it is their liking during childhood. Jane Smiley states that young girls like Barbie dolls because they can try on a no-holds-bared (376). Smiley’s daughters are in the childhood stage when they are often curious to try something. Smiley says, “Both of them learned how to put makeup before kindergarten” (376).
In “Barbie Dream House,” there are 3 Caucasians, 1 African, and 1 that doesn’t show her face. One of the blonde girls is the main character because she gets to play with the doll house first while everyone in the background are non Caucasians. The blonde girl gets all the attention. As a leader of the commercial she gets to play with the doll. We need to be aware of what’s taking place in children programming’s.
Even though Barbie is put in a professional occupation, they attribute her success to good luck instead of her non-existent efforts. Instead, it is her pleasure- seeking that allows her dog to discover the gold. Even at work Barbie lives a life of leisure. Motz explains how the image of an adult woman that barbie plants on little girls is fictional. However, we all seem to encourage our little girls to play and interact with this dolls.
I remember seeing a playboy around this same time frame and not really being able to comprehend what I was looking at. My mind was so small and didn’t think of such deviant things. I would express my sexual identity through my Barbie dolls. I know as a child I would fondle myself or try to explore and my mom would catch me and make me feel like it was wrong so I learned to quit doing it or be expressive of it. Now, I wish that dialogue would have been more open and not thought of as so bad or awkward, because it only caused distance in our bond.
I mean how could we expect a four year old to deal with the stress of a pageant without a full body massage? The more pampered the better! These days it’s become simple to turn a living breathing toddler into a barbie doll. Not only pretty like a barbie doll, but also the fake, plastic-like perfection of a barbie as well. Their skin is perfect with the help of fake tans and more makeup than the average woman will wear in her entire lifetime.
Giovanny Sanchez May 5, 2012 Ms. Collins Barbie’s World In everyone’s childhood there is always that one special non-living figure in their personal lives, a figure we admired, something we looked up to be, like an idol. In “You Can Never Have Too Many,” Jane Smiley thanks Barbie for the effect she had on her daughter’s lives as they were growing up to be young adults; by teaching them the feminine side of woman at an early stage, which ultimately allowed their minds to have a lot more options when it really came down to figuring out who they wanted to be at an adult stage. Smiley however, does not effectively support this argument because she gives a lot of credit to Barbie for the way her daughters turn out to be but she’s forgetting
As an example, Loke was nervous about joining the swim team at school, but did very well once encouraged. At age six, she had some trouble with math, but with some after school tutoring and fun-math related activities at home, she succeeded again. When Loke younger and her younger sister fought, they were each put into a separate room and required to remain there until they could play together peacefully. I believe that this parenting style was the best choice for Loke and she has grown up well because of
The one song that comes to mind is “Smells like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg And when some girlfriends would get together at my house, we listened to stuff like “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ stuff that we could dance to and be silly with each other. By listening to what ever everybody else was listening to, I believe that it helped me fit in with everyone around me. Teenage years are pretty awkward for all teens
Many girls, at the age of four, like playing dress-up or playing with Barbies. I was the exception. A person might say I was the “tomboy” in the group because I liked playing with the boys. Although I liked hanging out with boys, I liked cheerleading. There came a time where my parents made me choose between softball and cheerleading.
Some of them give the iPhones or iPads to make their children silent and to have a peaceful time after their have worked all day. Some of them five then to their kids because the kids what to play. During a party, I saw every child was putting their head down and playing with the devices. I thought why are we have a party? A party is for people to communicate and socialize.