JFF - Have All Your Daughters Watched the Disney Princess Movies?

Yep, my girls both went through the "princess" phase. They've completely outgrown it now at 11 and almost 10, but, BOY, did they love those movies when they were little. We own them all (they're gathering dust somewhere in this house), but they've been watched many, many times over the years. It really came in handy, their princess obsession: "Did you know that baby carrots are Belle's FAVORITE snack?!" "Jasmine LOOOVES hummus, you MUST try some!" "Mulan would NEVER eat such a huge amount of ice-cream, let's put some of that back." Yeah, underhanded, but it WORKED!

DD hasn't seen most of them. She'd rather watch Scooby Doo or The Brady Bunch.

She is just not the girly girl princessy type and never has been. She did live the movie "Brave", but it wasn't really for the princessy aspect of it - she really liked the bow & arrow, the bears, etc.

To be honest, I am very happy about all of this, because I am not fond of the princess fad & what it teaches girls.

My daughter (3) has a big brother and she likes what he likes. She has no interest in the princess movies! None! I try now and then to interest her but she wants nothing to do with it. I think it's funny. I keep waiting to see if she will change and suddenly like princesses. Here's an example: I showed her all the princess and fairy costumes but she wants to be spiderman for Halloween!

My daughter has been smitten with Cinderella since she was about 3 1/2. She's 6 now, but still loves the Disney Princesses. She hasn't seen all of the movies, even though we own most of them, but she still knows and loves all of the princesses. I think the only one we don't own is Mulan, but we watched that on tv last weekend and also have it recorded on our DVR. I can't wait for Brave to come out on DVD. We saw it in the theater and loved it.

She's super sensitive and won't watch several of the movies because the villains scare her. She won't watch Snow White because the old woman/evil queen scares her. She won't watch Sleepinging Beauty because Maleficent scares her. She won't watch The Little Mermaid because Ursula scares her. She won't watch Aladin because Jafar scares her.

Unfortunately, she's starting to get into other things that aren't quite as innocent. Right now the big craze with all of the young girls is Winx Club. Ugh, yuck.

I don't know about all of them but they have seen the majority of them. I do have a bit of an issue with the way Disney portrays the princess needing some prince to come rescue her so I do explain to my girls that they're fairytale movies & that's not true love, yada,yada, yada. But we love Disney movies & own the majority of them! :)

Some of them she has.
When she was 3, she was on a watch Cinderella everyday kick, and one day in the car, mind you, she is 3, and says "Ummm, Mommy, should I be looking for a boyfriend or husband or something?"
I blame it on Cinderella.
I cant stand how all of them are victims sitting around waiting for a man to swoop in and save them. {{Dry Heave}}
I know, Im getting pretty ridiculous, but Jeez!
I have really been digging the newer ones though.
I love Princess and the Frog! She always had hopes and dreams for HER future, and it was a bonus that the right guy came along. lol

LOL!!! Isn't it funny how life works out?

I don't have daughters, but *I* hadn't seen/bonded with them all. My mum was caught the same way. She used to joke she had kids to be able to see Disney in the theaters without being looked at. We OWNED all of them (back when they came out only every few years). But I was a tomboy. I knew a princess once, and her life scared me (I was only 5)... So I've never really been big into princesses.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Disney, and like you... We live in SoCal (went to DL maybe once a month). But I liked ALICE. And the aristocats. And the Rescuers. I was a tomboy. I bonded with Peter Pan, not Wendy (although she was a tomboy- in a way- in her own right, becoming 'mother' made me gag. I wanted ADVENTURE!)

It took my mum YEARS to seperate out me vs sisters & herself. Still cracks me up.

My daughters both went through the typical Disney Princess phase. I'm just happy that they like Princess and the Frog and Brave more than they have liked any of the others. At least I've done something right if my girls are more attracted to the heroines who don't need men to come save them from themselves... Although I'm going to admit that MY favorite Disney Princess movie is Beauty and the Beast (I love the music - just absolutely love it. Know all the words and everything ;).

*I* have not seen all the movies. I'm 38 and grew up with 3 brothers and hippies for parents. Didn't happen.

I now have an almost 5 y.o. and a 2.5 y.o. They are both bitten with the princess bug, however, the oldest gets easily frightened. She has seen Cinderella (her favorite) a few times now, has seen Tangled almost 2 times (with me sitting with her), and hasn't made it through Beauty yet.

We have been to Princesses on Ice and another live show (no ice) and she KNOWS about the others and their names.

It's just a matter of time before we ALL see them! :)

Both my girls were Disney Princess fanatics. Never doll fans, but loved the movies. Isn't that weird? My 23 year old still can curl up with her 15yr old sister on a rainy day and watch, Mulan, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid and Cinderella. At some point, they both had a Princesses b-day party, all pink and girly.

My 4 yr old has watched Beauty and the Beast and Snow White. She also loves Tangled though I never really considered Rapunzel as a Disney princess. Oh well. Any way she has never seen Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (though she does know who she is), Little Mermaid. I keep meaning to pull the VHS tapes out of the basement--yes we still have them--so she can watch them. One day.

I thin kat this point her favorite movie is Pinocchio.

yes unfortunately it was not my wish, but my sisters wouldn't let that fly and both my daughters have seen them all. They are 5 and 3. They want to BE a princess now. I dont particularly care for Disney Princess's as I did NOT grow up watching them, but I guess its not going to hurt to watch some of it for now.

Both of my kids (a boy & a girl) have seen the disney princess DVDs. We owned The Little Mermaid before my son was born and since my daughter was born we have added to the princess collection. Both kids enjoy the princess ones just as much as the non-princess ones. They both love Tangled and that's technically a princess movie. I think a lot of the new princess ones are not just aimed at girls.

All of my daughters have seen the majority of the Princess movies. They love the dolls from the movies too. It's great for me because I grew up with two brothers and my mom is a tomboy, so I never really had anyone to share the love of frilly things with.

Now that's funny!

I can't believe your first daughter never watched them with her :D

My girls are 11 and 4 and my oldest watched a couple of them, but never cared about them, and my youngest hasn't seen any of them. My oldest was always way more into animal movies and my youngest is tomboy through and through.

Yes, our daughter is 22, she saw all of them and loved all of them.. She is a very intelligent, independent woman.. With 2 degrees and a mind of her own..

Also very creative.

She knew all along these were not real.
They were fairy tales. But she loved them.. She also loved dress up and making up her own princess stories. Most of them involved, Pet dragons, that lived with her. Or she would pretend to be a powerful wizard..

She also saw all of the Star Wars movies, LOTR, Harry Potter, Every Tim Burton movie.. so many great movies.

The only genera of movie she really does not care for is Violent, terror movies. She says, she likes to be entertained, not terrorized at the movies.

LOL. I started collecting all of the old Disney movies as soon as they started coming out on DVD. This was BEFORE I had kids, mind you. I was collecting them for myself!! Now, fortunately, I have 2 girls, so I at least have an excuse for having them other than "They're mine!" That said, my girls also have an obsession with the movie Cars, How to Train your Dragon, etc. So even though we have the old classic princess movies, they don't watch those exclusively, so if we have any boys in the future they won't be forced to ONLY watch those movies! :)

DD is 5 and has seen some of them, but isn't gaga over them. Of the ones she has seen, she's seen them maybe once or twice, but doesn't ask to watch them over and over, and doesn't ask for tons of princess stuff either. She recognizes all of them, she got their pics and autographs at Disneyland when we were there this past spring, but doesn't care about watching the movies and stuff so much. She does LOVE Ariel (which I think is more about liking mermaids rather than princesses) but won't really watch the movie because the sea witch scares her. In most of them, there is something that scares her that keeps her from wanting to watch them. We took her to see Brave and she really liked it. She also liked Tangled.

DD seems to be that nice balance of girly-girl and tom-boy, so that while she does find some things princessy appealing, it isn't so much a part of her identity. She would rather draw and color and read and write then get caught up in playing princess, or dress-up, or mommy, or whatever. She wants to be a teacher when she grows up. I am not that much of a girly-girl myself so the whole princess thing is something I've neither encouraged nor discouraged. DD went to a princess-themed birthday party recently for a friend, that was held at a salon, where every girl got a princess make-over, with their hair put in an up-do, some glittery make-up, and a visit from Cinderella. DD loved it and loved how she looked. Then the next day she was fine with it being all over, the hair back to normal, the make-up all gone, and going outside to play soccer. :)

Coincidentally, we are taking her to see the Disney on Ice show featuring some of the Disney princesses. She'll probably like it more for the ice skating than the princesses.

Hmmm, you make a very interesting point. My only daughter has two older brothers. She has never had an interest of any kind in anything girly. Lord knows I tried. I am not a girly girl either so I made a deliberate effort to MAKE her girly, too, don't want her to miss out. I think girly is nice. When she was little I was like a 6 year old with a new doll, had a BLAST buying pretty girly clothes, especially after two boys, you know?

Soon as she started having her own opinion, that was the end of that. She's 15 now and very ungirly, sigh. Although I've noticed just lately, like past few months she has been wanting blouses and sweaters as much as band tee shirts, skinny jeans, and converse.

No, no Disney Princesses for us.

:(

My girls have watched them all because we own them on dvd. I've been a member of the disneymovie club long before our girls we're born. It was a simple case of Mommy loves Disney so the girls were exposed and they too love Disney.

I still recall the first time my oldest saw a disney princess movie. She had been very ill and we were not allowed to lay her down to sleep. She had to sleep reclined in her swing. I knew she loved music so I thought I'd try to put something on the tv and see if she would notice or pay attention to it. She was only a few months old but I thought what the heck I'll give it a try.

I popped in the Little Mermaid thinking she would get a kick out of the singing. Sure enough it got to the part where sebastian sings under the sea and her little face just light up like a Christmas tree. She was glued to the tv until she eventually dozed off smiling :)

I think we could all use a little bit of fairy tales and happy endings in our lives :)

Peace and Blessings,
T. B

My daughter is 3 1/2 and just saw her first the other day. She also has two older brother's and they've never seen them either. I think yds was more impressed with it than DD. I think Cinderella just went over her head. She could take it or leave it. Despite being the only girl, she does seem to appreciate 'girly' things. She wants to wear a dress everyday and loves ponies, pink/purple, nail polish and ballet. I have to say I'm not really disappointed that she's not into the whole princess/must have a man to be complete thing.

I guess my daughter watched them, I know we owned several I bought Mulan as soon as it came out (does that count? I loved Mulan) but she was never really into them. She like the Aristocrats She watched Winnie the Pooh a lot when she was in preschool. Then My little Pony over and over. I can still sing the theme song to My Little Pony.

my mom and grandmother bought me all of those movies when i was younger, iv seen them all once maybe some a few times but i was never really into them. i hadnt even thought about that for my daughter as shes only 2 months but my fiances stepmom has .. shes got a whole stack of em ready to go when our daughter is old enough