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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA mom's post about a Halloween costume is going viral on Facebook. Thank you, Target!
http://www.upworthy.com/a-moms-post-about-a-halloween-costume-is-going-viral-on-facebook-thank-you-target?c=upw1&u=6bacec6889bf05ba106ae00be40328adccb1c8a6
By Laura Willard
Jen Kroll got pretty excited when she saw a recent Target ad.
No, it wasn't because of the "buy one, get one half off" sweater deal. It wasn't even because flannel sheets were 15% off.
Nope, not at all. (Though, flannel sheets do sound nice...)
Here's what made her week: a photo of an Elsa Halloween costume.
The ad meant so much to her that she posted it on Facebook and had this to say:
Do you see what Jen saw? The model sporting the dress worn by Elsa of "Frozen" fame has arm crutches!
Yes, that's a big deal. Especially for Jen because here's a photo of her incredibly cute daughter, who just so happens to love Elsa:
I mean, seriously. Can you even with the adorableness?! Photos by Jen Kroll, used with permission.
FULL wonderful story at link.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Thanks, Steve. So good to see this.
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)That little girl is unstoppable! Thanks Target!
onecaliberal
(32,850 posts)CatWoman
(79,301 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)demmiblue
(36,845 posts)Digit
(6,163 posts)I would like to see more of this!
Look at those little darlin's.....adorable!
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Wow, and here I was last night whining about my stupid remote control on the idiot box not working very well.
Peace
Teagan
(62 posts)Normalizing disability lowers the stress levels for those who are disabled. It also means a lot to the disabled veterans. I will continue to shop at Target.
niyad
(113,279 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Just WOW!
robbob
(3,528 posts)....think I got something in my eye...
Sometimes we think our lives are so complicated and difficult but this little girl who has so much to overcome in life, beaming out her joy at the world makes me realize what a precious gift life truly is. Thank you for posting this!
progressoid
(49,988 posts)PatSeg
(47,419 posts)What an adorable little girl too!
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)The group creates wheelchairs that are unbelievable and make the kids physically confined to them into superheroes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NQXvSb-ZC7U#t=5
http://www.magicwheelchair.org/
Omaha Steve
(99,618 posts)Thank YOU for sharing!
OS
niyad
(113,279 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)Thanks for this wonderful story, Omaha Steve.
niyad
(113,279 posts)MiniMe
(21,714 posts)Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)That little girl is AWESOME! Look at that smile!
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Really wonderful of Target.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)as the WH and congress move to cut SSDI.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Upworthy went to RootsCamp 2012 to present our findings. We have discovered just how easy it is to make things go viral. And we're sharing it with you. Because we love you.
http://www.upworthy.com/how-to-make-that-one-thing-go-viral-just-kidding
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)the amazing array of differences in who we are as humans.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)This is good.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)told her daughter that there were a lot of kids like my daughter. After about a year, she finally asked me (she was three yrs old at the time) "where are all the other kids like her?" I answered with "They are home with their mommies and daddies." She said, "OOOOHhh". And she seemed to like that answer. It made her feel better somehow. That is what we have to do, get these kids in our view, in our schools, and let the other kids know that being handicapped doesn't mean you lose your home, family etc. That you are just like them, only a little different in one or two things. It will be better for all our children.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Who wouldn't love this?
Back when I was this age, children who were disabled, or "different" or "handicapped" were hidden away. We didn't go to school with them (they had their own building, and never associated with us "normal" kids), nor see them around at the movies, or on Halloween. Same thing with black students (we didn't have many Asian or Latino families around back then in our area): they had their own school, and social mixing was almost unheard of.
Things are much better today, when we can see people not like us everywhere: on TV, in the movies, on the streets, in our schools, at the store... Still a lot of work to be done, but believe me, there's been progress.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)in the '70s one of the guests was in a wheelchair and I had no idea how to act with him; all I could do was remember my mother telling me as a child "don't stare."
But times and attitudes change one way or the other -Twice last summer, in the NYC subway -I saw young women with prosthetic legs - one wearing a slinky "little black dress" and the other wearing a miniskirt.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Target has been making some very good choices lately.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Thanks for this!
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Alkene
(752 posts)As demonstrated.