<p>"<em>The Princess Problem</em> offers sound, sensible, and parent-tested advice for helping children thrive in today's consumer culture."—JO B. Paoletti, author of <em>Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America</em></p><p><strong>How to Raise Empowered Girls in a Princess World</strong></p><p>It's no secret that little girls love princesses. Behind the twirly dresses and glittery crowns, however, sits a powerful marketing machine, encouraging obsessive consumerism and delivering negative stereotypes about gender, race, and beauty to young girls. So what's a parent to do?</p><p><em>The Princess Problem </em>features real advice and stories from parents, educators, psychologists, and children's industry insiders to help equip every parent with skills to navigate today's princess-saturated world. As parents, we do our best to keep pop culture's most harmful stereotypes away from our kids, but contending with well-meaning family members and sneaky commercials can thwart us. </p><p><em>The Princess Problem</em> offers language to have honest conversations with our children and shows us how to teach them to be thoughtful, open-minded people. </p><p>"Her ideas and suggestions on how parents can help their children navigate the overwhelming princess marketing, media, and negative stereotypes are refreshing receptive...Parents—this is a must read."—Brenda Chapman, writer/director, Disney/Pixar's <em>Brave</em></p>