Gender Neutral.... As a child I despised being girlie. I liked grunge alternative clothing in colours that were for both girls & boys. Occasionally, now I'm an adult, I will experiment with feminine looks but 99.9% of the time I will go with what I as an individual feel comfortable in.
When it comes to raising my future warriors I allow them to wear what they feel comfortable and happy in, whatever colour/style. My son regularly joins in dressing up and will often don a Disney princess dress while one of his sister's dresses up in a racing driver suit & no one bats an eyelid in this household.
Shopping, particularly, grates on me. When meandering round the clothes section boys & girls items are clearly defined and irritatingly stereotypical...blues for boys & pinks for girls... Toys, even some nappies, appear to be specifically catered for either boys or girls!
People laugh if I say my son watches Barbie (a personal favourite of his), he's happy, he's content and quite frankly that is all that matters, after Barbie he might watch something to do with dinosaurs..... Who cares?! He isn't hurting anyone. There is so much emphasis on gender and what a boy should do and what a girl should do that happiness is overlooked. If your child wants to wear a dress, a pink top, football boots, a racing driver suit, let them! Their happiness, confidence and character are what defines them....don't mould them into a stereotype let them be free! My children are free to be the people they want to be, wear what they want and play with what they want & they should be able to do that freely without question from the ignorant.
