Pink or no Pink

[LifesUturn]

My son is about to turn 3 and I'm getting him a balance bike he wants a very specific one which is a vintage style bike with a basket and is Pink with white tyres....his dad has outright said no because it's 'a girls bike' he has tried to show him others and has told him he isn't allowed Pink but he still picks the same one every time.....would anybody just buy the Pink or buy a different one and hope he likes it?

@LifesUturn Just one thing. When you do upgrade to a pedal bike, don't get one with stabilisers. The point of a balance bike is to get them to find their balance so they can go straight to a pedal bike without stabilisers. If you wait until he's super confident on the balance bike and then just give him one with pedals he should pick it up straight away. If you give him a bike with stabilisers he'll slow down when learning how to use the pedals and start balancing on the stabilisers, which means he'll lose the balancing ability he'll have gained on the balance bike and it will take him longer to ride without stabilisers.

When you move to a pedal bike, weight matters more than anything, so get the lightest model you can find. (I ended up buying three 14 inch bikes, one secondhand and one posh Dutch one which were both too heavy before I went into Decathlon and just bought the lightest pedal bike off the shelf.)

Honestly I wouldn’t. Only because my son loved pink and rainbows when he was 3-4. I duly got him a rainbow scooter and decorated his bedroom with pink and rainbows as per his request when we moved house. All good until he changed his mind, then he hated it. Starting school further cemented his change in taste. I try and go for fun colours like bright green and purple now that he’s older that aren’t particularly aligned to either gender but are still “fun” and not too grown up.

editing to add it was a pain as I can’t afford to replace toys or decor frequently. If money wasn’t an issue then the above doesn’t apply.

Even if pink did actually make it a girl's bike, what would be wrong with a boy having a girl's bike? That's what I would ask your husband.

Of course it's OK to buy pink for a boy if he wants it. I have 2 daughters, and the older one has always been obsessed with video games and science, and the younger one with football. Even though they are all stereotypical 'boys' things.

When I was searching for something to buy DD1 for her birthday last month, I looked for gifts for 'her' and kept getting flowers and hearts and unicorns and ponies and make up sets, and the like!

I had to look under gifts for 'him' to find something she would like. Video games, sports things, telescopes, anything science related etc, were ALL under gifts for boys/men. Pisses me right off. It's the 2020s, not the dark ages.