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Teacher asked who chose the pink bottle....

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Caszekey · 26/09/2025 11:33

Ok, so it's more aibu to allow / encourage this behaviour.
Fairly identifiable so here goes.
5 year olds twin boys, both have long hair like their Dad which I put up for school. Ones favourite colour is pink. Both adore Frozen so wanted the dress up dresses (Kristoff is a minor character). Last WBD they dressed as Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood (bear, wolves are minor characters). School have jokingly passed comment previously about pink bobbles etc but today I was asked, incidentally, if I chose the pink bottles or them, do I pick costumes etc.
I don't know if she's curious or implying I'm doing something wrong but it's got me second guessing

The choices are child led and I reckon they'll age out of them but I don't want to pull the "boys don't do that" line when girls have so much fun.

So aibu to allow them to pick so freely ? We've not yet encountered a request for a dress for general living, just they like to be Princesses!

OP posts:
sundaychairtree · 29/09/2025 13:06

Do you havr a daughter op?

Caszekey · 29/09/2025 13:37

T1Dmama · 29/09/2025 10:26

My bro & SIL allow their 2 to choose what they wear all the time, my nephew went through a stage of wearing skirts.. he’d wear these tutu style skirts to grandparents, to ball parks, days out etc!.. His parents just let him express himself and never discouraged it.. he’s 6 soon and has now stopped wearing ‘girls clothes’ completely.

I think year R is fine, and if they want to dress as female characters let them… but maybe next year in the run up to WBD encourage the reading of books like Jack and the bean stork, Charlie and the chocolate factory, where’s Wally, Cat in the hat etc…. My DD & her 2 friends had real fun going one year as cat in the hat… one being the cat, the other 2 thing 1 & thing 2!

They've already chosen the slinky dog from Toy Story - wish me luck!!

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SapphireSeptember · 01/10/2025 12:09

My 14 month old DS is currently wearing a pink babygrow with cherries on it. I bought it for him. He's also wore tights last winter to keep his legs warm. I draw the line at skirts/dresses, but think purple and pink are fine colours to wea6. (I bought him a set of 'girls' leggings because they were pink, yellow and green, instead of dark blue, lighter blue and beige for the boys.) I find it annoying that boys' clothes are so dreary in the shops I go into.

Mandylovescandy · 01/10/2025 12:22

My boys also loved dressing up in princess outfits (probably ageing out of that a bit now) but still love pink, sparkly stuff and jewellery. They have had a couple of comments from people in their class but they haven't been bothered by that.

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