{"id":3884,"date":"2010-07-28T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2010-07-28T01:30:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T05:30:03","slug":"my-daughter-and-the-invasion-of-the-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/28\/my-daughter-and-the-invasion-of-the-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter and the Invasion of the Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have a four-year-old daughter.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s call her the Precocious Princess for discussion purposes here.\u00a0 As many children do, she idolizes her older brother (he&#8217;s 10).\u00a0 She sees him playing with superhero and sci-fi action figures and emulates his behavior.\u00a0 Recognizing that, I&#8217;ve been trying to buy her girl-centric superhero toys.\u00a0 If she&#8217;s going to play with superheroes, I want her to understand that girls can kick butt and save the world also.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been buying her toys of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Wonder Girl, Hawkgirl, etc.\u00a0 There is not a bunch out there, but I&#8217;m doing my best to get them in her hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was playing in my home office the other day while I was straightening the house.\u00a0 I came in to check on her, and these were the toys I found her playing with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"My Daughter's Toys - Supergirl, Hawkgirl, Wonder Girl, and a Dalek\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/daughterstoys.jpg\" alt=\"My Daughter's Toys - Supergirl, Hawkgirl, Wonder Girl, and a Dalek\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not exactly the particular combination of characters I was expecting to find!\u00a0 The heroines on the left are hers and she&#8217;d somehow managed to get hold of this 15-year-old Dalek toy I had lying around.\u00a0 When I walked in the Dalek was in a very animated discussion with the heroines shouting &#8220;Exterminate&#8221;.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure she knows what that means, but she certainly knew the catch phrase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess she&#8217;s trying to be like her brother and her daddy.\u00a0 Makes me proud.\u00a0 It also demonstrates kid&#8217;s natural interest in the Daleks (a phenomenon dating back to 1963).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To hear my four-year-old daughter doing her best Dalek impersonation, play the audio file below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. 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That's sort of odd.\u00a0 The previous Batgirl and Wonder Girl were both raven-haired, while the Batgirl before that was a redhead.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Supergirl by Michael Turner","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/supergirl.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4211,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/27\/my-geek-birthday-doctor-who-tardis-cake-and-cookie-jar\/","url_meta":{"origin":3884,"position":3},"title":"My Geek Birthday &#8211; Doctor Who TARDIS Cake and Cookie Jar","date":"September 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I was totally overwhelmed and touched by all the birthday wishes I received last week!\u00a0 My thanks to all of you that sent messages through Facebook, ultimately bringing the social networking goliath to its knees on Thursday.\u00a0 I was on the road for work on my actual birthday, but I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doctor Who&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Geeky Birthday Cards","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/birthday_cards.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4389,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/18\/girl-totes-from-dc\/","url_meta":{"origin":3884,"position":4},"title":"Awesome Tote Bags for Girls from DC Comics!","date":"October 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across these really cool tote bags for girls this weekend at Wal-Mart!\u00a0 Forgive the fuzzy photos, they were taken with my camera phone. The picture below came out especially bad.\u00a0 It's a shame because it was a cool looking design. You should be able to find these at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;superheroes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DC Heroines Girl Power Tote Bag","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/bag_girlpower.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4405,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/21\/halloween-costume-ideas-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3884,"position":5},"title":"Need Halloween Costume Ideas? Look at these from DragonCon!","date":"October 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some Halloween costume ideas! 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