Cinderella Story

In Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein scares the bejesus out of this father of a young daughter with her extensive research into the potentially caustic messages marketers are pushing on girls Olivia’s age and even younger. Luckily for me, there are books like this that can help us parents counterbalance these influences on our daughters. And of further fortune for me, I have a daughter who has been giving a variation of the rant below for some time now.