if I think buying my son a toy pushchair with pink flowers on it won't damage him for life/make him gay/etc etc

[bohemianbint]

He really loves the one at playgroup so I bought him one. It's his best thing ever, it encourages him to walk more (as opposed to making big pregnant me carry him) and he loves pushing his toys around in it. Only thing is they're all bloody pink everywhere you look.

Men push pushchairs. DS may grow up to be a father and push his own child around. So why do they only make them for girls, and why are my family making such a song and dance about it FFS?

simply put - because people are still very 1950s about gender stereo typing

of course pushing a buggy will make him gay

You can get blue ones. I got one for DS2 in Wilkinson's and ELC do a blue one too. Having said that, it will make absolutely no difference to your DS what colour it is so buy him one regardless of what anyone thinks.

YANBU - We were at indoor play centre a while ago - a father was pulling a pushchair off his screaming son asying "that's for girls.." - poor wee mite was in an awful state.

Don't see how likeing pink or pushing pushchairs is going to make DS fancy men when he's older - and TBH would that really be a problem?

ELC had a blue one a few month ago. Not for boys specifically, but blue.

All the little boys I know have loved pushing pushchairs when they were toddling.

just get him the pink one and ignore any comments people may make.

Pink is a nice colour, why deprive him of a pushchair because it's pink? Go for it.

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my ds fave toy was his dolly and pushchair

my dp thought it was wrong but when we went out lots of little boys walking there dolly to the shops

there only kids role playing bless em

Silly isn't it. My nephew loves my dd's toy puchchair but my bil won't let him have one of his own.

Macho toy soldiers for him only

DS had a purple one.

He has a pink tutu though. It's the one he chose. I don't care what anyone else thinks about that!

What is it with fear of children growing up gay? I would be utterly happy for any or all of my dc to be gay. Why ever not?

dnephew (2) has a new pink Barbie scooter. He also wears tutus and plays with dolls. it's sweet.

would you take a car off a little girl and tell them its only for boys

so why not allow our little men some fun with girls toys

Perhaps I should point out that the only factor in "making him gay" will be the genetics he has inherited from them all...

I really don't want him growing up thinking that all men play football and housework is "women's work". He can do both, or either, or neither for all I care.

look I see the boys at playgroup push them around all the time - they love racing each other and careening around with them.

Man have babies too. Men even have daughters.

FWIW I got a nice navy blue cheap check buggy from wilkos a few years ago and it was less than a fiver.

elc have blue ones

I mention this because there may come a point where he picks up on the ridiculous "Pink's for girls" idea, and refuses to play with his pushchair any more

Sorry, have completely ignored you, MummyDoIt!

Does this mean that all the daddies we see pushing pushchairs are gay? I hope you're not going to let any daughters play with trains and trucks. You wouldn't want a lesbian, would you ? sigh

i should think engendering a desire to push a pushchair will turn him straight

YANBU. I'm thinking of getting DS a pushchair because he loved the one at his childminders. I will try and get a blue one, though

My Ds has a doll, a pushchair, a pink dolls house, a kitchen and likes to dress up in dresses. Whilst I havent bought these specifially - hand me downs from friends - it doesnt bother me at all. From his perspective these things are fun - dolls arms twist in wonderful ways and they can be flung about by their hair lol.

Seriously though they are just toys and they see the fun bits of them. He also has trucks, bricks and loves to run about wildly getting muddy.

My DH has serious problems though and keeps trying to throw them away and I dont quite understand why. Ok 50 years ago men just went out to work - but now they help with children and I would expect any son of mine to play an equal role in the house - so he learns to play with babies, push them around, cook, play house etc. Wheres the harm in that?

Its a shame they arent allowed to do it whilst no one bats an eye at girls playing with trucks and so on.

xx

My ds has one, i got it with some of his first birthday money. He has doll too, although dd has stolen them both I got him the elc blue one and a blue baby, well the baby's not blue but the clothes are

My ds loves playing with all things pink, hairbands, bracelets, dolls, bags. But then again with a pink mad sister he's going to like it.

I too agree that people make an issue of boys playing with 'girls' toys but not the other way round, which is why ds has a pushchair dh's mate won't let his wife buy their ds an upsy daisy doll so for his first borthday i'm buying him a pushchair and doll

My 18 month old DS has a pink buggy that he adores.

He won't let you put ANYTHING in it though, just hurles it out again

Nice to see I am NBU!

If the next baby turns out to be a girl she won't be dressed head to toe in pink either. (Not while I have anything to do with it, anyway!)

bohemianbint, i didn't buy alot of pink for my dd, but sadly now at nearly 4 she chooses and it's pink everytime

I got my son a pink pushchair from ELC when he was 18 months old as he loved his friend's pram and dolly. He played with it until about 6 months ago (he's 4 now) and now won't play with it as "its for girls".

Same with his lovely kitchen that he used to play with all the time. He is becoming more boisterous and has opinions on things being girly - from nursery I think.

So - get him a lovely pink pushchair, its only a colour - and he will no doubt grow out of it. In fact you can have mine if you want! Its folded up in his bedroom doing nothing!!!