I have a big dilemma coming tomorrow. It is bigger than I thought and it could affect the future of my two girls for years to come. Well, not really. I have been told by a very creditable person (my wife) that I tend to make more of an issue than there really is sometimes.
It is this: do I let my two girls watch the wedding of Kate and Prince William?
For me, I really have no interest in this whatsoever. The whole monarch thing is foreign (no pun intended) to me. I don't get it and even when it's explained to me by those who are passionate about it, I still don't get it. How can we still have kings and queens within a country who don't really run the country? Am I missing something here? Likely.
Back to the wedding. My dilemma is this: I don't want them to get the idea that they will actually get to be a princess someday. For me, this wedding ranks up there with Santa, the Easter bunny and the Great Pumpkin. It's a nice story, but it is not the truth. I want them to believe that being a princess really is a fairy tale, a dream and a nice Disney story. I don't want them to think that marriage is something that it is not. It is not about becoming a princess. Maybe that is what draws so many women into this wedding.
After all the pomp and stuff, Prince Billy and Kate will still have to live with one another and hopefully honor God by their marriage. They will have to put in the work it will take to stay together because there is no such thing as "happily ever after".
For me it is just how pretty it will be. Girls like fashion.
ReplyDeleteI never got the princess thing, even as a kid. My parents didn't make a big deal of it either way, negative or positive. They just kinda let me like what liked, which was chemistry sets :)
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