One of the many joys of owning small children is the sheer amount of times they can revisit the same thing until something you quite liked turns into a form of daily torture.

Don’t get me wrong Frozen is a great offering from Disney. But watching it every single day in between playing at ‘being’ Elsa and Anna and singing along to the soundtrack in the car does start to send you a bit over the edge.

Here’s a my top five reasons parents should still love Frozen:

1. Fantasy special powers!


When Elsa’s parents discover she has magical ice powers they go to great lengths to hide them.



I find this harder to believe than the singing snowman.

If I had a toddler with magical powers she would be on her 4th season of a reality show by now.

Cheer yourself up by imagining all the ways you could exploit a toddler with magical powers.

I’ve already put together several fantasy pitches for Dragons Den most of them involving frozen margaritas.

Pour yourself another ‘Elsa’ and let it go (Picture: Getty)

2. Lost at Sea

Where are Elsa and Anna’s parents Mummy?

Good old Disney – totally threw us to the lions with that one.

Instead of singing along with Do you wanna build a snowman? for the 507th time try working out how you’re going to explain the concept of death to a four year old.

Formulating a decent answer to the question ‘What does lost at sea mean?’ should keep you busy for a while yet.

3. Death to Pink!

Let’s face it Disney have created this film because they realised that parents of young girls were starting to get sick of all the pink sparkly princessy sh*t.

Personally I don’t have a problem with pink but I do have a problem with every single item in the house being pink.

Seriously if you rolled a cat turd in pink glitter my daughter would add it to her Christmas list.

I’d love to say Disney made this film because they realised young girls needed to see stories about strong female characters taking control of their own lives.

But let’s be honest they probably just wanted to sell more stuff and the market for pink princessy stuff has sort of peaked.

So this Christmas, thanks to Frozen, we’re all buying sparkly blue shit instead.

Go Disney!

Take a few minutes while Elsa builds her ice palace to be thankful for all the blue plastic stuff you now have cluttering up the house.

4. American accents.

As a Northener who has children with a Southerner I used to worry that my children wouldn’t say bus, bath or duck the same way I do.

Then Frozen came along and now both my children speak and sing in annoying American accents. ALL THE TIME.

I’ve managed to turn this to my advantage by pretending they’re not my children dancing round the front room singing about their souls spiralling on frozen tractors all around.



5. This too shall pass.

First it was sleepless nights, then toddler tantrums and now it’s Frozen.

I’ve spent my daughters entire life wishing things away.

One day my daughter won’t want me to lie on the kitchen floor dying while she attempts to rescue me with an act of true love.

One day she’ll learn that Trolls aren’t short hairy creatures with magical healing powers – they’re just horrible people with access to Twitter.

One day she’ll be too old for Elsa dresses and Anna dolls.

Let’s just hope the message about not marrying a man you’ve just met has sunk in….

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