to think DH is taking his Welshness just a bit far?

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Went to collect DS (aged 18 months) from DH's study where he'd gone to say goodnight, to find DH has taken said child out of his only pair of clean pyjamas and hidden them, on grounds they were the wrong colour. I.e white England rugby strip rather than red Welsh. Pjs 2nd hand and child is 1/2 English anyway, as it happens. DH cannot understand why I don't appreciate I have committed a mortal sin. Aibu, or just missing a key chromosone?

sandor my husband is the opposite of yours, and it just so happens DS looks gorgeous in red and blue.

I'm not a football fan, I just like winding him up.

My daughters had a very fine selection of rugby tops from an early age after my Welsh MiL and England supporting best friend got into an ever escalating rugby shirt proliferation stand-off.

Fortunately I am able to recognise my children's dual heritage and my single parent MiL had taught my husband to support England to make match viewing more fun so we were both happy to let them wear either. (I insisted on the England top for England/Wales games though. Obviously.)

No way on God's sweet earth would my dc be wearing an England strip but I read the OP as just white pjs in which case I have to reluctantly say hibu as I'm wearing a plain white shirt today.

Who has white pjs though?

You can't see your much loved dc in the kit of your arch enemy, whatever the sport or allegiance.

They were the child's only pair of clean pyjamas. He wasn't off to a match with him!

OP, your DH needs to grow up. I'd tell him that if he indulged in such ridiculous behaviour again, I'd make a point of buying him England rugby and football strips and putting him in them every day for a month to de-sensitise him to the trauma of seeing his son in the 'wrong' clothes.

compos

I love Mumsnet

Send a boy to school in a pink princess dress = Excellent

Send a boy to bed in an England kit = Fuck that, no way

Mad!

Ah Worra but the first is right on middle class trying to be cool and the second is a tinge of working class as it concerns men and sport.

That's the difference.

Oh let him wear the white pjs - they'll be grey soon enough if he's anything like my kids.

The funniest thing is how the red rugby kit is worn proudly by men who later put on their Liverpool shirt to watch football.

It doesn't seem that odd that someone from (say) Flint which is in Wales and 25miles from Liverpool would support both teams.

For most of North Wales Liverpool is the nearest top flight club.

The Liverpool squad is hardy 100% English anyway.

compos I know you were joking but sadly you can find 'orange' stuff in the smallest of sizes. Including band uniform. I hate marching season, especially when they come past the house really early on when I've come off back shift and going back out on another.

I heard a lot of the no green or no blue clothes stuff growing up it's stupid.

Well we are in a similar situation as myself and DH are from two different countries.
I wouldne most unhappy if DH was refusing that our dss were wearing my own country colours! And in the same way, I would never stop the dss to wear the English course (DH colour).
It's a question if respect for the other person's origins!!!

And the fact we are talking about a man or about Wales has little to do about it and certainly doesn't excuse his behaviour.

Handsoff7, agree with all you say. The Welshmen im talking about live about two miles away from their local team though. They see no disparity about wanting to beat the English in all and sundry wearing their Liverpool, Man utd shirt .

It isn't nice to have to look at your child wearing a colour that has bad connotations for you.

But this is how prejudices get carried on (and on and on). How will he know when the DS is aware and its time to stop? At 18 months my DS certainly was staring to know what he did and didn't like.

A toddler is their own person, not a billboard for their parents' political beliefs. Especially if whenever he wears white near his dad he's told to take it off.

Dh and I are different nationalities. Ds supports both teams and when they play each other he is happy whoever wins. He supports both our club teams and would be the same if they met. He also supports my mums country team. Far more harmonious.

I know someone who is diehard about their team and their son wants to support the same team as his friends. It really isn't worth the aggro and father son disharmony. Let your child make their own choice!!

My Welsh DH supports two teams; Wales and anyone who's playing against England. His accent gets more pronounced the closer we get to 'God's Country' and he looks incredibly smug anytime I accidentally say 'I'll be there now'. He says I couldn't possibly understand the pride that comes with being Welsh. I then point out that he doesn't even know all the words to his own national anthem and has to read them from one of the dozens of Welsh themed tea towels he insists on buying every trip we make! He can definitely sing though.

I knew my Welsh boyfriend had strong feelings for me when he offered of his own free will to support England in a match they needed to lose in order for Wales to win some element of the Six Nations. I was beyond touched.