to think that parents should mind that people mistake their boy for a girl?

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My children were playing football in the park with other little children. They all attend the same school so I know the faces. DS came crying because the little girl wouldn't let him play with her ball. A mum sitting next to me commented that this boy doesn't like to share his ball. "What boy?" I asked, "I thought the ball belonged to that girl". The mum said "HE is a boy". I laughed, "No, I mean that little girl with WAIST LONG hair". She insisted he was a boy with long hair, she knows the family. All year I have seen this child and never crossed my mind he could be a boy! They all wear tracksuits so I couldn't tell by the uniform. He also has a unisex name... Apparently the parents don't cut his hair because it's too pretty. He wears a half pony tail... How could I know?

YABU

if the parents don't mind and the child doesn't mind what does it matter?

I mind very much that people think that dd2 is a boy

because she pulls her hair out

Can't see why it would matter.

lol people always mistake ds for a girl. He has short/ear length curls, and i'm guessing this is why.
Doesn't bother me though.
yabu.

I don't understand - what's the problem?

Ds was always mistaken for a girl. He had curly blonde hair to the nape of his neck, so not overly long and looked quite 'pretty'. Didn't change until he was 4 and had a very short haircut. He used to tell people he was a boy.

People used to mistake DS for a girl too when he was 1 or 2. It didn't upset me. But I found strange that these parents make their 4 year old boy look completly like a girl. Of course there is no problem with me! It is not my child after all.

Too much time on your hands?

Maybe you want to give a list of subjects that are worthy of being posted here, HMC? *

Well I'm sorely tempted!

waist lenght hair in a ponytail on a boy? pretty? don't think so

IMO YADefinitelyNBU

WHat's it got to do with you? Gender isn't binary anyway, and if the kid does't mind, then it's no one else's business.

Gender is binary - sexual orientation might not be but there are only two genders.

By 'like a girl' do you mean have long hair? In which case, wouldn't the tracksuited girls look like Because girls wear pretty dresses? Isn't that how it works?

That poor kid is gonna hate all his photos when he grows up and looks back. He will say "WHY mum WHY!?! I look like a girl!!" I think YANBU!!

how silly to judge

my boys sometimes look like girls
they are children who cares?

the tracksuited girls look like boys - oops.

Ah, but hating your childhood photos is a rite of passage, no?

'You dressed me in what?'

ohhh and I am letting ds2's hair grow because it is soooooooo lovely. He has had it cut once and from now on it is only going to be trimmed. But I like long hair on boys and men.

i have thought MY OWN ds was a girl before ( seriously i sat through half a nativity before realising )

means they're pretty!

Your problem, very obviously not theirs. Yabu.

lol lol lol

I love you lockets!

If only ds's locks would flow. Sadly he is more of a bush type. Ah well.