So I think all little girls are misled. We are set up to expect fairy tales from our earliest years. We are told of 'prince charming' and all his saving ways. Then when we are older we are scolded for dare having a thought that we aren't the ones to save ourselves.
Do you see where this is just a bad idea? Yet, here I am reading the same stories to my kids and tucking them into bed with the 'hope' of fairy tales. Why? Why not read them the news or the statistics regarding divorce rates, college graduates, chances of making the team, unemployment rates, cancer statistics, so on and so on? We don't do it because we know that reality will come soon enough and so we participate in the endearing protection of that sweet innocence that will all too quickly be robbed of their perfect mind.
It's tragic really.
I am devastated by my own discovery, but the thing that truly crushes my heart is the waiting and worrying over when their fairy tale world will be 'reality stricken' too. I would almost give my own life if I thought it could keep them from it. As you will soon discover...my mission is to keep them in a fairy tale as long as possible for fear of what will happen when they are no longer.
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