When Frozen premiered in November 2013, our family was blissfully unaware. Oh sure, we knew there were millions of little girls worldwide who used Anna and Elsa to embrace their inner divas. But our little girl, an only child, was only 1 year old. The Frozen phenomenon had passed over our household. There were no howling winds swirling inside our walls. No frozen fractals tormenting our souls. Imagine my surprise when a few years later, our 3 1/2 year old little girl came home from school and boldly announced that she wanted to watch Frozen as soon as possible. This was the start of an intense love fest with the ice queen and her gullible younger sister. As Moms we like to think we are open-minded, flexible, and permissive-- at least under the right circumstances. So, I was down with Olaf and company. I thought Elsa was an empowering role model for my daughter: a strong, decisive leader, able to thwart would be assailants with icicles. Turns out though, that despite what the 'love experts' would have predicted, our relationship with Frozen crashed through the thin ice.
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