Live Like a Princess

In the Disney movie, "The Princess and the Frog," a young African American girl, Tiana, always dreamed of owning her own restaurant when she grew up serving her father's gumbo, jumbalaya, and other Southern delicacies. After her father died in war, she took it upon herself to make that dream come true. She faced many difficult challenges being born into an impoverished black family. She had to work through many obstacles, such as working at two diners to save up enough money to buy a place, being turned into a frog with the Prince of Maldonia, being chased by evil spirits, falling in love with the prince, and finding out how to become human again, to eventually achieve her dream. In the end, she chooses love, which means she has to stay a frog, but when she kisses the prince at their wedding, they both turn into humans again. Her choice of love eventually brings her success, because the prince has all the money they need to buy the place and create her restaurant. Although this is just a children's movie, there is a great lesson stated by her father: "never, ever, lose sight of what's really important."