High fantasy

I should be shot. Or perhaps spanked? I am the worst, succumbing, of course, to buying I. a halloween costume to assuage her dress-up needs and cultural expectations of which I claim to not partake... even though she looks adorable in her renaissance style princess garb. And of course, I had to foment the shoe fetish that my child has already begun to demonstrate, black dress shoes, with black sequins...

Now, if I were Idealist Savant I could pull off wearing a tiara and transparent high heels of the cheap streetwalker variety (no aspersions being cast) but I am sadly not into lycra, leather nor lace... although... nah. So I guess my kiddo is going solo.

And I thought to myself, what does a master teacher/ mentor/ parent have that seems to elude me? Well, as we should all know, they model the behavior that they would like to see (hear) reproduced in their disciples. Lamentably, I have much to learn before I can model the appropriate ways to circumvent such pervasive cultural norms, or meet with self-desired expectations.