its. a. BIB!

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Sorry please excuse my raging PMT!

Friend and her little boy came round for lunch, little boy is a couple of months younger than DD (who is 21m). We sat them both at DD's little table and I grabbed two of the catch-all bibs that hang around on the end of my counter. Just grabbed the top two without - turned out to be purple and pink.

I went to pop them on the toddlers while my friend filled her son's cup, then she turns to me and says "Sorry can he have a blue one? He's a boy, I don't like him to wear a girl's bib"

I dug out a green one, she was happy with that. Didn't say anything (only recently made friends, didn't want to ruffle feathers and as the mum of a DD, I'm unfamiliar with gender colour preferences). But later thought "it's a bib, it won't make his nuts drop off if her wears a 'girls colour' one!"

Strange, no? Please feel free to enlighten me!

bupcakes loved the idea of your DS singing away a la Glee style!

At least I know why my best friend is gay.........his mum must have used his older sisters hand me down bibs!!!!!! Now we know LOL. MAD PEOPLE

my (almost) two year old son loves nothing more than putting on my daughters fairy outfit and princess heals and dancing around the front room to Kylie...

Actually that doesn't soun so good does it...

What a friggin idiot. You should give him a tutu for his next birthday and watch her twitch, you might even get a full 360 head spin out of her. Make sure to take pictures...hehehehehe

My 2 year old DS got a baby doll and a dolls buggy for Christams ... in PINK! It was his favourite christmas present.

Ofgs! If she's that bothered she should have brought her own bloody bibs! I would have been tempted to not give him one and let him get food down his top.

Thank god dp is completely and utterly unfazed by any of this nonsense because both my boys are exposed o masses of pink, dolls, glittery things and makeup..... the joys of having an older sister.

They quite happily parade around wearing pink necklaces and fairy wings and both play with sylvanians, barbies and dolls.

Equally my pink and girly as they come dd is obsessed with Lego, gets dirtier and muddier than any boy and spends most of her time playing in the boys room with fire engines, dinosaurs and ben 10 toys.

None of them seem to have suffered any unfortunate side affects and even better... none of them could give a rats ass about what other kids say about their choices in toys.

My ds made me make him a party dress with a big twirly skirt when he was 3, although he did choose blue fabric for it. Also loved his (own) doll's buggy and his dd's dolls house. Very thankful to have ds and dd.s so that we have all sorts of toys and they all play with them all.

When he was starting reception we were in the UK for 1 term. We had been given 2 bikes. One too small bob the builder with stabilizers, one bright pink, big but with no stabilizers. He rode the bob bike to school for a couple of weeks, and then one weekend taught himself to ride the big pink bike. He was so delighted that he could now ride decent, big, fast bike.

He rode the pink bike to school, and all the big boys said 'why do you have a pink bike?' he just grinned from ear to ear and said BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE STABILIZERS - LOOK!!!!
The other boys then thought it was pretty cool that he could ride without stabilizers aged 4. They never asked again, or gave him any trouble for it. (and it was seriously pink and sparkley)

I was so proud of him, that he was prepared to run the gauntlet of the big boys for the sake of the better bike.

Now he is allergic to anything 'girly' though - that is the diff between 4 and 8!

actually that was his Dsis dolls house not his dd's - fathering at an early age...

6yo DS brought bright pink YooHoo toys into school on toy days last year, to proudly show off to the other children.
He's one of the most aggressive and well hung boisterous boys in his year, too.

mrspoc quick get your ds out of school now before its to late. My ds who is very much a boy plays rugby and does taekwondo. Had dance as pe the other day, hes in reception.

They made them dance with ribbons they were blue though. Run away now before its to late its the beginning of the end I tell ya.

My DS2 regulary wears pink bigs and uses pink blankets as my best friend has 2 girls and we are often at her house so he gets to use a lot of her dd's old baby things, saves me trooping loads of stuff with me when I go.

When DH and I first got together he used to think DS1 carrying handbags adn the like was odd but he (DH) has thankfully grown up and got over himself.

My ds1 has never been picked on or bullied for liking nail polish or playing with girls stuff in fact a lot of the other boys he knows wish they had sisters as well so they could too.

Loon.

Ds adores pink. He tells everyone who wil listen that pink is his favorite colour. When his little sister was given a tutu, wings, headress and want for her birthday he spent most of the day wearing them. He is currently playing with her very pink teaset and mini cakes. He has manned it up a little by inviting a dinosaur fo rhte weekend to eat cake though

It is a bib. She'd be screwed in my house, I only have 2 plastic, pelican bibs and they are both pink.

tjacksonpfc there is nothing wrong with dance, i used to enjoy it at school and was even in Greace the musical at School.

I know a woman like this. She says that wearing pink will turn her son gay. She also says that she wouldn't send him to childcare involving male carers as they must be weird for wanting to do such jobs.

I think these people are just misinformed and a bit stupid, TBH. Who cares if a child wears blue or pink?

My DS1 's favourite colour was pink, until he was informed that as not allowed by someone at playgroup when he was 4

He also used to push his Thomas the Tank engine around in toy buggy, until a mother of one of the other DCs at playgroup told him buggies were for girls

Well quite obviously she's worried he might catch the 'GAY"

Highly contagious and dreadful don't you know, you want that on your conscious do you? ha?

Oh god she would really disapprove of my parenting then; My 18 month old DS wears pink bibs that his older sisters used, has a pink blanket that I sometimes use on his buggy AND he loves playing with DD2's Disney Princess Kitchen!

I seem to remember pink being a boy's colour until about 100 years ago. She's a twat. I feel sorry for the child to have such awful gender-identity shit enforced at home.

Hope she's not on MN - can you imagine the thread....

I went for lunch with a friend, and she obviously had no idea how fragile my little boy's ego is. She tried to put my precious DS in a PINK bib. Doesn't she have any idea what this could do to his self-confidence and sexuality growing up? I think the friendship might be over.

My friend stopped me buying pink tracksuit bottoms for my DS. I am so bored with traditional boys colours though. He now has a lot of bright green and orange stripy stuff which clashes nicely with his slightly ginger hair
I have put pink hairclips in his hair for a laugh though...he did look very sweet. I think it is crap to stereo type colours and asking to change a bib is bloody stupid!

I actually wouldn't be friends with her anymore OP.

You'll have the poor child in frocks and suspenders next.

YABU. Her ds had a very lucky escape. If it were not for the quick actions of his mother, he could have ended up gay or transgender which would be a Very Bad Thing. Try to be more responsible in future.

I'd really struggle to hold a conversation with someone like this tbh. My head would be filled with 'WTF?'

apart from the INSANE fear of a pink bib, it was also quite rude.