to be fed up with the amount of pink!

Yellow and Green are fab on any child - thumbs up to that !

i went to mothercare to buy dd a travel cot the other day and the choice (in my price range) was grey or pink. we chose grey.

i then looked in early learning for a push along trike. the choice was green and blue or pink. we chose green and blue.

she does have a few pink things. a pink coat for example. most of her other stuff is along the lines of pumpkin patch. i quite like all the yellow and green stuff next have at the moment, and their red white and blue 'french' looking stuff.

Unfortunatley the shops collude with society to tell us that boys wear blue and girls wear pink. It is up to us to rebel

but why does my sis think it matters if I give her dd a present in blue paper?
Does she think it will damage her own gender identity??? !!
I mean why would anyone want to reinforce that whole pink thing any more than the whole of society already does??

I have one dd, dress her in pink, blue or red. I really don't care that much about the colour of her outfit, she appears to suit blue much better anyway, she has big blue eyes. I think I would be slightly worried about me if I was getting this upset/offended by a particular colour. Surely there a bigger things worth getting upset about, sorry it offends you too.

I know expat. My nieces all went through the damned pink phase, wear less of it now as teenagers, thank goodness !

DonnyLass - let's, they will have beautiful babies

yellowose ... let's betroth them ...!

My daughter loves pink. I know not why. I do not argue because I know there are many ways in which her tastes will differ from mine.

It's just a colour.

DonnyLass, my ds is so pretty he gets mistaken for a girl all the time

I absolutley hate pink and think that it is sexist to colour code any child. I would never wear pink myself, so wouldn't put it on my kids either. I only buy ds very neutral colours that both sexes can wear, beige, brown, white, green, etc.

I do like a bit of pink and purple mixed into his clothes though as they mix well, i.e. a nice pastel pink and brown or khaki is a lovely combination. But very rare when looking for boys clothes. I bought him a purple cardigan recently, it was in the girls section, but I don't care as it looks beautiful on him.

tis blummin annoying

and that sickly pink is really irritating

DH insisted (tis a rare thing for him so I let him stamp his foot )that when we bought our dd a spare chuck-arounf buggy t'other day we got the blue one rather than the nasty pink one that m/care currently selling

... and then smugly declared

'she's so pretty that noone will mistake her for a boy anyway'

he's correct of course!

Pumpkin Patch is good for boys and girls stuff in cheerful not-gender-stereotyped colours ...

The lack of other colours for clothes is frustrating. I also detest anything with sparkles and sequins.

I find this whole pink pram/buggy thing a bit dare I say it chavvy??

I'm a bit fed up by the lack of other colour options when buying clothes for my dd -I'm not a big fan of pink. However, she's been given a lot of pink stuff and when a baby often went out dressed from head to foot in it - what always surprised me was how many people still asked "is it a boy or a girl?"

dd1 (9)refuses to wear pink, finding her girly unpink clothes is not easy, she tends to live in boys clothes. I see the frustration (and don't really like pink myself) but have learnt to live with boys fashion instead

my sister is a total pink maniac
I was about to wrap her dd's present in generic blue happy birthday paper and she ran in saying "I've got pink! I've got pink!"
who cares?

I think it is a UK thing - never noticed this when I lived in Switzerland. And it's a reasonably recent thing too. When I was looking through photos of me and my sisters as babies I noticed that we didn't have a single pink item. Shame about the mustard yellow combo my mum put me in though!

Is this a particularly British thing? One of my favourite sites for kids clothes is the Germans Jako-o , and there's noticably a lot more variety colour wise - for both boys and girls - than there seems to be in the UK.

It's not so much the pink that bothers me. It's the fact that shops sell 3 times as many clothes for girls as they do for boys. Honestly sometimes I really stuggle to find something nice for my DSs. It seems to be the same in every shop, three racks of pink to every one rack of blue.

I think it depends how much effort you want to put into buying clothes. For DS I could find red, yellow, orange, green (Gymboree used to be very good for colourful stuff). I had the time.

For DD I rely mostly on what we receive from others and when I need to get her something myself I tend to just get what I find quickly. If it's a 3-pack of T-shirts one is bound to be pink. Anyway, there's enough beige and brown in the world. I don't wear them myself, why would I dress DD in them?

What's wrong with pink? If I have a boy I'll dress it in ALL pink

Its always old ladies, bless em!

I'm really grateful I've got a boy. We got so many blue clothes when he was born that I'm fed up with them, but if I'd had a similar quantity of pink it would have done my head in I think.

LOL kks!

that happens to me all the time, kks. My dd is a bit androgynous, I guess - like a wild-haired little troll doll (remember them?). She can be decked in pink from head to toe and people still call her a boy.

I like pink, but you can definitely have too much of a good thing and I think pink's growing monopoly status needs challenging before there's no choice left.