DTs came home from PILs today with NAIL VARNISH on...

hahahah loved your contribution about priscilla queen of the dessert, good to have a sense of humour

oh dear. i give my kids a make over when i'm bored.

my sons.

aged 6 and 8

a while back i painted their nails and realised i had no remover so they went to beevers parade the next day and then school the monday with pink nail varnish on.

am i to assume i dont win Mother of The Year trophy?

and that i'm not to be surprised if i come home one day when they are all grown up to find them decked out Pricilla Queen of the Desert style?

i wouldnt worry about it too much, just make a decision whether you like it or not, i let my two year olds wear it on their toes because i wear it and they obsessed witth all things pretty but i think you just need to decide one or the other,

so take it off.

NBD.

i've put it on my 3-year-old for a bit of fun.

Oh dear, InAMuckingFuddle, no wonder you are InAMuckingFuddle.. you are obviously one of those people who gets their knickers in a knot over nowt.

You need something real to worry about clearly.

To be blunt, stop being so silly... and furious!

It would not bother me...worse things could happen, nail varnish is not a "bad" thing
But I can understand it bothering some ppl, I mean...we all have different likes and dislikes. When we go see my sister, her daughter puts my son in dresses and sometimes adds fairywings, then we go shopping, that I can just handle!!!
I have told her off when it comes to make up, but I don't mind the dressing up. Some people would freak.

Unreasonable to be a bit annoyed - no. Nail varnish on little children is naff, tacky and makes me think of children's beauty pageants. But I guess it was just a bit of fun.. .. . ... .. ..

To be honest though, I am just as worried about Grandpa - was it his nailvarnish?

I have promised to paint both dd1 and dd2's toenails for the summer

bright coral has been requested

I think we are getting at the fact that there is plenty of time to experiment with make up/body adornment. A 3 year old would have much more fun with a few pots of crayola paint or doing some gardening.

I vote yes, you're unreasonable. It won't do any harm.

DD2 (3.7) loves wearing nail polish. It's bright yuck pink and washes off. She loves it - it's fun (she doesn't go to a salon and have a full on manicure!). I don't know why so much fuss. Chill out. Little girls have been putting on Mama's shoes and lippy since the year dot. They didn't all rush off to get their nipples pierced and stand on street corners, you know.

What are we getting at here? 3yr olds who wear nail varnish are destined to be nothing more than prossies?

Today nail varnish, tomorrow pierced ears and a navel ring. Yeuch.

When we went on a cal-mac ferry when DS#1 was 2 he was fascinated by a lady putting nail varnish on. He got closer and closer and after a while she asked if he wanted some too. So he sat there solemnly while she painted all the nails on his left hand with pale purple stuff. He was so proud of it

Don't see that it is really so terrible.

Only read the OP - can't see the harm. DD has some on now, as a treat because she stopped picking at her nails. At her 3rd birthday party i put nailvarnish and glitter dust on any child who wanted it. Didn't get any complaints, in fact most of them seemed to now exactly how to hold their fingers out and wave them about to dry.

In the whole great scheme of things I don't think it's worth getting furious about. If it bothers you that much then a light hearted "I think they are a bit young for make-up don't you?" comment would appease. But I don't think venting your anger at their grandad would do any good at all. He sounds like a lovely old man trying to keep his lively grandkids amused. If I can play devil's advocate here ..... if I was the grandad and you were really angry with me about it I'd take the hump and be reluctant to watch them again

FUDDLE, GET OUT OF THE SCRUM NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

poor mucking

My DDs loved a bit of nail varnish when they were pre school age. Not sure where they got the idea from as I never wear it (and to my knowledge neither does my DH. They have never been much interested in make up - although I do wear it about twice a week. They are now 13 and 10 and show no interest in make up at all. I suspect if I had tut tutted about the nail varnish when they were smaller and banned it's use completely my 13 year old would now be putting on the slap with a trowel!

Chill - they will give you much more to worry about in the future.

Dunno about nail polish, but DS was partial to wearing a pink tutu for a while last year (3yo)

With green face paint on.

He looked wicked

imo, there's a huge difference between a child wearing nail varnish occasionally as part of a fun, dressing up type game, and wearing it every day because they're concerned about their image.
As a one-off, it shouldn't be a problem.

DH has his nails painted by DDs OBVIOUSLY!!!! He doesn't do it himself LOL

Well my DDs (5 & 2) love nail varnish and regularly have it on their finger nails and toe nails. They also love putting it on and my DH just as regularly has his nails painted. What is the problem??

I think YABU, my dd's love me or dh to paint their nails, I agree that nail varnish remover isn't great for children so we usually just let it wear off.

Have you ever told their grandad that you don't want them to wear nail varnish.

When my dd's go to visit grandparents I trust them to make decisions on what they do with them and unless it was harming them in some way I would be cool with whatever they choose.