Disney Actually Does Teach You Things

Submitted by Rachel Hulshof, Morningside College,

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Mulan — MulanSometimes you have to break a few rules for the sake of your family and it might even require duct-taping your boobs down.

Lilo — Lilo & Stitch

Family is more than just the people you share DNA with, it’s

also the people you choose.

Belle — Beauty and the Beast

Books can take you all kinds of places, but don’t get so lost in them you miss the real world

around you.

Hercules — Hercules

Don’t pattern your life after celebrities. Being famous doesn’t

automatically make you a role model. You have to earn being

called a hero.

Dory — Finding Nemo

Being forgetful doesn’t mean you’re stupid, and being happy

doesn’t make you weird.

Flynn — Tangled

Don’t be afraid to let people know the real you. You don’t have to pretend to be someone else to

succeed. Be proud of who you are.

Rapunzel — TangledVenture outside your comfort

zone. The rewards are worth it.

Pocahontas —

Pocahontas

Not everyone gets a happy ending.

Jasmine — Aladdin

Pay attention to the people around you. You may not just be

paranoid. That creepy guy looking at you might be really be

a creepy bad guy planning to make you his plaything.

Aladdin — Aladdin

Lying to your significant other may work for a while, but they

will find out eventually and it will come back to bite you in the

butt. And if they wouldn’t love the real you, they aren’t worth

your time anyway.

WALL-E — WALL-EWhen love happens, it knows no boundaries and requires very few words.

Peter — Peter PanYou can accomplish amazing things by thinking positively, but if a boy shows up at your window in the middle of the night he’s probably going to get you into troub