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?

his hair is not long now

will post one of him with long now hang on!

My DD has very little hair (8 months old, hasn't really come in yet) and I tend to dress her in unisex clothes (t-shirts, denim or khaki dungarees, shoes with disruptive pattern on) - most people seem to assume she is a boy. At first I kept correcting them but then I decided it sounded churlish, especially since it's usually coupled with a comment about how gorgeous she is! If I'm never going to see them again, what does it matter if they think she's a boy?

i agree southern

now ds4 gets the girl bit (ds5 too oddly) we just laugh inwardly and smile sweetly!

put pics of hair on profile

I don't always correct people either.

The other day at the bus stop an oldish man said oh is she always this lively in the morning.

I said oh he's a boy. He gets excited very easily.

I don't think he heard me properly cos he still called him a girl and I couldn't see the point in saying it again.

The next day at the park and lady referred to him as a girl a couple of times. I pretended I just hadn't heard. But then the children made friends and were playing together and obviously as I hadn't corrected her before she still thought he was a girl and I felt stupid saying now oh he's a boy after I'd let her call him a girl for so long!!

My children are mixed race. When they were little all the boys had their hair plaited at some point. People were forever remarking on what pretty little girls they were. We got used to it.

My bigger boys have dreads now. This tends to confuse people as they think the younger one has plaited hair and ask me how long it takes me to do it etc. Although he looks very much like a boy the hair seems to puzzle people and its like they just cant work it out.

This tends to happen more in less urban areas or where the population is less diverse. Its what people are used to I suppose. It doesnt really bother me and DS2 has a language delay so he hasnt noticed yet. I am not sure what he will do when he does though!

There is a picture of him on my profile but it may add to the confusion as he is wearing eyeliner

Suzi They are all lovely!! What's his hair like now then?

nappy - sadly in january 08 he cut it
children at school were being mean...however it is a long basin cut now

he looks very like this

chegirl he is GORGEOUS!!!

My favourite is the one of him on the beach. Is that a bandana?

i have that one blown up nappy! yes bandana he looks totally squeezable!!! Thankyou nappy!

ho hum - DS was taken for a little girl again yesterday - I really thought he had grown into looking far more like a little boy, honest, but no - this lovely man at the supermarket checkout said how lovely she was and was extremely surprised to find out he was a boy. Something about his eyes - too beautiful to be a boy's eyes.