Watch This Little Girl Blame Barbie for Nail Polish Disaster
The rule is “No nail polish in the house” — unless Barbie tells you to break it, that is.
At least that was the perspective of a 3-year-old girl named Sophie, who painted her Barbie doll with blue Disney nail polish — in the house. That got her a talking-to from her father, Joseph Nagorski, who uploaded footage of the lecture to YouTube.
The video, posted Sept. 30, has racked up more than 550,000 views and hundreds of comments from viewers who both commended the dad for how he “wonderfully handled” the matter and those who dubbed his method of discipline “emotional torture” for the little girl.
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“OK, so Sophie, you just painted your Barbie’s nails with nail polish, right?” Nagorski asks his toddler, who’s sitting on the floor wearing a hot-pink “Princess” T-shirt. “Yes, she told me to,” Sophie tearfully insists.
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“…All of a sudden Barbie said, ‘Can you paint me with nail polish?’” her dad clarifies.
“She said this a hundred times!” Sophie insists. “And I’d be saying ‘nooo.’”
Her dad asks, “When she was painted blue, did you think that you should have stopped painting her with your nail polish in your room on the carpet?” Sophie tearfully says she tried to get it off but it was “sticking” and “too hard!” and that Barbie “didn’t listen to me.”
Sophie then tries to spread the blame further by blaming “all the Barbies” who tell her to paint their nails “a hundred times.”
On Thursday, Nagorski defended himself on YouTube. “For those of you that saw this video as a cute little girl trying to get out of trouble in a cute way, thank you! You actually saw the video as it was intended and I am happy you enjoyed it,” he wrote. “For those that are trying to critique our parenting style and diagnosis our daughter, I am sorry that you have nothing to do other than shame other people and read way to deep into light-hearted videos on YouTube.“
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