We are in full days of Carnival and like every year, children dress up to celebrate it.
Today it was my older girl's turn to go to school in disguise, so this morning I dressed her in a Tinkerbell costume that Santa Claus brought her, made her up and left to celebrate it with her friends, although she is so shy that I don't think she will take it off The coat all day.
Upon arrival, we saw all the beautiful three-year-olds in their costumes, but looking at them through the class window I noticed a couple of things that caught my attention: that the costumes were very unoriginal and nothing creative.
For starters, all costumes were bought in a store. None was the result of the imagination and creativity of the parents who managed to make the suit for their son. They bought it and period. And not because they are over money, there are already expensive suits but others that cost you more to buy the items to manufacture than to buy one already made. That is why parents avoid spending time and energy in making a costume at home. It will be for that, but where was the dedication and illusion of Carnival? In the bin, for lack of time.
On the other hand, I have noticed that practically all costumes were the same. The group of boys was divided between Spidermans and pirates, while the girls, all, absolutely all of them were fairytale princesses except mine that went from Campanilla, which for the case is quite similar.
I say, with the variety of costumes that can be invented, why them superheroes and they princesses? Ok, it is the illusion they have at three years, but it is also not inculcating that a suit is worth more for the dedication that is put on doing so than for the brightness it may have and how much it may cost.
