Walking through any major chain store, I am amazed at the slogans on kids’ and babies’ t-shirts (basically, all the cluster B disorders minus borderline are represented). I finally saw a pro-social message on a shirt: “Helpful.” I looked at the tag and it turned out to be a retro shirt. I should have known. I looked online and found variations of the shirt in a few places.
The books were fantastic, IMO. They’re very hard to find in the US. My wife and I found stacks of them at a book sale in Ireland a couple of years ago and we bought up a whole bunch of them for our kids. History here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Men
I read “Little Miss Bossy” and “Little Miss Splendid” to my daughter every once in a while. The messages are very straightforward: It doesn’t pay to be either bossy or snooty.