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My two-year-old twins came back from pre-school last week singing the chorus to Let it Go. For those fortunate enough not to know, Let it Go is the torch song at the heart of Frozen, the Disney princess movie of 2013 and beloved of girls everywhere. My children are played out by the song every week at ballet. Now, thanks to their teacher, they can sing the words too.

And I was taken aback. The TV rules are pretty relaxed in my house. I don’t set quotas (the iPhone is different), nor do I fret about the quality of what they watch, as long as it is roughly age-appropriate. But after they begged me to load the video for Let it Go on YouTube, I found myself having a very un-fun parental reaction.

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