so how do I convince my 2 yo DD that there are beautiful colours other than pink?

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Made the mistake of getting her some tutus for christmas - a pink one and a white one. She got some sparkly pink shoes and a tiara too. Guess which outfit she's refusing to wear and which she will hardly take off? I've told her I'm bored of pink. That its silly to wear only one colour because there are so many lovely colours in the world and even that pink stinks - she told me it doesnt stink it smells of strawberries. Seriously - what strategies should I be emloying to make sure I don't raise a pink obsessed princess?

Don't worry - the pink stage is a stage they all go through. It doesn't last forever, just go with it and only get pink clothes for a while. Mine both went through this - it can last a few years, but once they start at school it wears off. Mine are now 9 and much prefer black, grey or dark blue - my washing is now so boring, I long for some pink to liven it up.

What's so wrong with pink? So she has a different opinion to you - that's a good thing isn't it?

Seriously? Stop fretting!!

She will grow out of it...well, the pink phase will pass, but then you will have something else that she will obsess about for a while, and then you will have your pre-teenager wailing that she has NOTHING TO WEAR, while standing in front of her well-stocked wardrobe....and then you will have your teenage daughter, trying to sneak out of the house wearing a teeny-tiny skirt and top and NO COAT in the middle of winter....

You have got SUCH a lifetime of fun ahead of you, what's a little pink??

pink is a great colour.

she's only 2 for pete's sake.

enjoy her enthusiasm and let her be herself.

(she'll soon be a black-clad teenager with black eye makeup who wouldn't be seen dead in pink )

you can sell colours by calling them 'purply-pink' if you want to move her to a purple phase....

[from smug position of someone whose 2yo's favourite dressing up outfit is her high-vis vest]

you could cull pink from other areas of her wardrobe so at least the tutu is over blue jeans and a white top, to at least dilute it a bit.

introduce her to a 2 yr old ( or slightly older) friend who REALLLLLY likes red

wait..wait ...wait

Don't do anything. She will just change when she is ready.

DD age 7 now only likes black and dark jewel colours, before that blue . No pink at all since about 4 or 5. may of herfriends moved on sooner.

If you hate pink and it stinks why did you get her a pink one in the first place.

IIWY I would dye the white one pink too, at least you can swap and wash them

My dd (4.5) has just started liking purple as well as pink. ds was obsessed with green for almost 3 years and he grew out of that when he was about 4.5 too. Lots of girls go through a pink stage, then it goes into purple and turquoise, then black. Nothing you can do but wait for her to grow up a bit.

Pre-children I said that I would never let any daughter of mine be a pink princess.

DD (3.8) lives for pink - she loves to wear pink, her bedroom is pink, she would paint DH and I pink if we let her. I know that it's a phase and if it makes her happy then I'll embrace it with her - I can think of nothing better or lovelier to do. She also adores cars, riding her bike fast and anything which gives her an adrenaline rush. It's part of who she is at the moment.

As others have said, the next phases could be far, far worse.

This too shall pass....... This too shall pass.......

And the sooner you stop trying to make her wear other stuff the sooner she'll stop wanting to wear the pink tutu all the time! And quite frankly, it's you're own silly fault for buying them in the first place!

It's hard I know. I am a pink-hater, yet I have two total "Princesses" but I'm happy to say that DD1 (6) is into other colours now, and DD2 (3½) is beginning to move on now too. Perhaps get her a Cinderella/Belle/Snow White dress up frock from ebay, not pink, but uber-girly, I found this was enough of a compromise to make us all happy, and the girls just thought I was a lovely Mummy for getting them Princess stuff, it never occurred to them that it wasn't pink!

Cheers girls. I'm not losing sleep and I certainly don't hate pink incidently, I'm just interested in practical strategies of how we might deal with the horrendous material onslaught of pink tat and thought in the light of the "pink stinks" campaign it might form a timely thread. I guess, as with so many issues, I'm trying to hit that balance between nipping things in the bud early against not demonising and therefore making it more appealing. But yes she's only 2 and I know it's most likely to soon pass. My mate has just reminded me how much my ds loved pink at the same age!

OP - there are no such strategies. You can't. I was determined not to have a pink princess, and I am convinced that the only reason my dd decided to learn to talk at an exceptionally early age was so that she could say "Gracie not wear dat" to a particularly enchanting Levis and Aran sweater outfit I bought for her!

I tried to buy her a "I'm not a Princess" sweatshirt for the Pink Stinks website but it hasn't come yet!

I have a 2 year old obsessed by BLUE. She hates pink, and I can't believe I'm actually having to talk her into vaguely girly clothes. We only ever shop in the boys section. And to think I was dreading the girly princess stage - or do you think I've still got it to come (with DS maybe )