To not like nail polish on little girls?

Saggi my GS loves pushing a toy buggy. It does tend to be at high speed from one end of the yard to the other and sometimes results in the 'baby' being catapulted out, which is a good excuse for sending for the ambulance and getting out the doctors kit. Anything can be fun to play with. (his sister usually nabs the role of doctor)

Hopehope
" Oh nail polish!"
But you did comment. This is just the passive aggressive 'non comment' my mother would make.

Poor PRINTMISS never! I would never mind what people think of my views, they can express theirs and I can express mine; I have had to learn to do that on many occasions; thank goodness we are all different and we live in a society where it is possible to do that.

"Passive aggressive"???
Somebody is overthinking something

Apologies if I offended PRINTMISS. <keep my sympathy to myself in future>

We may not encourage boys to push dolls' prams but, if one is available, many little boys will do just that, pushing not dolls dressed in frills in the pram but their action figures and perhaps the family cat if it will stay in the pram! Small prams are good for tinies learning to walk too, they can act as 'walkers'.

But put a selection of toys in front of little boys and little girls and it is interesting to see who gravitates towards which type of toy.

OH! Maw thanks for the sympathy, perhaps I am not used to it?'A little kindness goes a long way' I have a little plaque that says that, maybe I should remember it? For some reason I have become 'angry' recently, no idea why, perhaps that came over in my last post although I was not angry - oh I do so hope I am not becoming one of those horrible old women who complain about everything! Oh! Woe is me.

"Passive aggressive"???
Somebody is overthinking something hmm

Comment or don't comment but commenting and then claiming 'I didn't say anything...just/but...' is passive aggressive.
Keep your mouth buttoned tight if you really don't want to say anything...

It's just a bit of fun. My DGS (nearly 2) was here yesterday with green nails! - he though they were great!

They have nail polish that does not give off fumes.

Keep your mouth buttoned tight if you really don't want to say anything

Empty room.....argument....

Good job you're here then Maw

feel like i just stepped into a timewarp
ummm in 1972 my penpal from cornwall came to visit
she brought her triumph motorcycle with her so we could ride from florida to california together.

I didn't read anyone encouraging gender stereotyping, mimiro, more the opposite. The thread started and mostly continued as a plea to let small children stay as small children without being primped and decorated like adult women. Time enough for that later.

And children's nails are beautiful unadorned, without nail varnish.

I know that we are discussing little girls nails but can I mention older girls nails....my GD aged 12 yrs. In school uniform - blazer, knee high socks, tie and flat pumps with long hair tied up in a pony tail, she looks...well...twelve. At weekend, she dons sports gear (tight), lets down her long hair to cascade down her back, paints her nails pink and ....well......she looks sixteen. Gives the wrong impression to those who would not have her best interests at heart. What do others think?

There's nothing new under the sun, grannysue. I am sure Juliet's granny said the same ("She is just 14! That Romeo is taking advantage of her because she looks older! Her mother should forbid it! Kids these days!")

I used to love dressing up in my mums shoes and jewels too but I also like to climb trees and my favourite thing was to dig up worms and play "families" with them.

My son had dolls etc.

Does it matter? Some girls are girly girls some not. Some boys are rufty tufty some not.

Little girls wearing nail varnish doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Blue Belle

I don't like the idea but I don't really have any good reason not to.
Perhaps it's something to do with trying not make our children grow up too early or be trying to fit into a sterotype of any particular gender identity.

I had a neighbour similar age as me who was determined not to let her daughter have a train set. (as it was a boys toy.)
My father bought one for my sister way back in the 1950s as well as a BAKO set and I had a chemistry set for a birthday. (He was a secondary tech school teacher.) In those days that was quite a bold thing to do.
Blue Belle

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My granddaughters are 6 1/2 and 3 1/2, and they often have nail varnish on. (the eldest only wears it at weekends or school holidays). Like most little girls, they like to dress up and look pretty. They always ask for my lipsticks, but I bought them some lip salves, and they're happy with that. I don't see anything wrong with it.

My GS used to wear blue nail varnish when his sister had her pink nails, they were 4 and 2, GD is nearly 14 now and never wears it, neither does the GS!
It’s just play dress up, I wouldnt worry about it, I used to wear it over 60 years ago too.

The nail varnish is not an issue to me either! Both my GD’s and GS’s have proudly displayed their nails to me. I just say nice nails haha. Also - can’t remember who said it but I already had two step sons when I had my first daughter so the house was full of cars, trains etc. After daughter arrived she would play with the cars and garages for ages and the boys took the dollies for a walk in the pram. When I got grandchildren of both sexes I let them choose whatever they wanted to play with. Seems the best way to me. But then I grew up with a similar age brother so we ALWAYS had the best of both worlds. I adored the scalectrix. Maybe a separate thread needed re stereotyping of sexes?