...to buy my son a toy buggy?

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So AIBU to:-

a) buy my son a toy buggy for his 2nd birthday?

b) to buy a pink one, as it is cheaper?

YANBU

'tis what I am planning on buying for our ds2 for his 2nd birthday!

if your BU so am i unreasonable. my ds has a pink pram. he is 20 months and he loves it. he also has a shopping trolley, hoover and a washing machine. he chose them so ive left him to him.

I'm sure he'll love it, he loves pushing things around, like his walker etc.

Is it cheaper? Where?

Argos

Heh, what's colour at that age? And as for the pram, whenever we're at playgroup my DS instantly starts pushing the prams around (as do all the children, boys and girls), because they're fun to push. There's nothing intrinsically 'girly' about them other than the assocations adults have put on them.

My DS loves playing with pots and pans and pushing a toy rabbit around in a trolley. As it happens, it's my DP who does the cooking in our household, so he's simply copying his daddy.

Gender-assigned toys and colours are stupid, and only perpetuate as long as people follow the stereotypes. I say, who cares? Go for it!

Oh, that is much better, ELC have put theirs up to £9

Pleased to be of service Bertie!

I brought my DS1 a pram, it was really helpful in getting him to walk in the right direction in the park.

He recently donated some pink and brown striped socks to a girl friend of his as they were pink and he likes pale blue, but he's 3.5 now and seems to have picked up gender assigned colours at nursery.

I'm a SAHD and both my boys (3.5 and 13m) are mad on cooking with me and I push a pram around all day, so why wouldn't they?!

DH always pushes the pram when he's here. I don't get a look in.

YANBU

My 22-month-old loves his buggy. My husband was dead set against the idea of buying him one at first, but soon changed his mind when he saw how delighted our son was with the buggy. It even came on holiday with us over Christmas, and my son also likes to put his teddy inside and wheel him round the supermarket.

do daddies not push pushchairs?

there is no gender assignment in play, what does it matter, what he plays with and what colour it is?

No i dont think you being unreasonable i had this same arguement with me ex dh..when my son was about 2yo. Its just role play..they copy real life and men do push pushchairs. And thers nothing wrong with it at all..same if a girl wants a car or an action man.

Quite right cookielove..the kids dont care..they are not interested in what colour it is..of course when they get older its an issue with older children as they dont want pink toys if ther a boy..my 11yo would go mad but pink is all the rage with boys at the moment its the in colour..ive seen teenagers with pink gloves.

My new boyfriend has a little boy 2yo..and his son plays with my 4yo..and they go straight for the pushchairs as soon as he gets here..pushing there dolls or teddies..its quite cute

DS has a pink pram (it was half the price of the blue one)

BIL has issues with this and doesn't like nephew having a toy pram of any description.
I take great delight in DS pushing his pink one around whenever they are visiting.
For that reason I'd have chosen the pink one if it had been the same price as the blue one

I love this thread!! I have had this argument with my ex for ooo months!! Finally i have some answers to his views which are "no it'll turn him gay"...yeh ok then love!!

Sorry, should have said

YANBU

I'm yet to meet a toddler who doesn't love pushing a toy pram, regardless of the colour.

Men push buggies, so surely they're not a "girl" thing?

I think you should encourage the "wrong" gender toys just to blow up the sterotype and help them to be what they are. My DS is a very loving little boy and cared for the dolls my DD was given and discarded (once she'd finished plucking their eyelashes out) and my DD has a ruthless business brain (would only lend me her pocket money for the parking metre if I agreed to pay it back with interest) and her favourite toy is a calculator. Bollocks to "correct" colours and play things.

Thank you all.

I was set on getting the buggy, but was unsure about going for a pink one.
No point spending more to be stereotyped, eh?

Nothing can turn a child gay..people dont get turned gay..its not a disease..it cant be caught. They either gay or not and at that age they have no preference either way..just tell him that and do it anyway thats what i said..he cant take it away once youve given it to your son.

DS has two, a cheapie he leaves outdoors and a Baby Born one with bottle holder and basket he uses indoors. His dress up doll is currently in it but only because his 'baby' is in bed with him at the moment

We did get some looks when he walked round town with his sweeping brush and when he insisted on wearing the fairy dress we were about to buy in Sainsburys.Kids dont give a damn.

Oldraver - your DS sounds gorgeous!!!

DS2 has just been bought his 1st 'baby' at 20mnths, because DS1 (4.5) thinks we needed one for our pushchair ( my retro one from 30+ yrs ago). DH was not happy about buying a doll, both boys think it's great, although DS2 was also bought a soft toy cat he would not stop cuddling.

Boys are more loving, and they really don't care about colour until someone tells them pink is for girls.....I would say that with 2 boys