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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP and I don't see how earlier posters were trolls.  It really is a question of both teaching your child that most things aren't "girl" or "boy" but helping them come to see that many people in society do feel that way and they'll have to decide how they feel in that context.

We have good friends whose son loves glittery nail polish but he eventually decided just to put it on his toes because in K and 1st grade he got made fun of and at least this way it was hidden by his sneakers.  More power to you that your son is confident enough to want a pink backpack, but are you prepared to support him if in October he realizes that he isn't yet strong enough to stand up to the societal norms and instead wants a Spiderman backpack?[/quote]

Trolls probably wasn't the right term. But ops question was not whether she should let him paint his nails, which is what the posters just saying "let your son be a boy" are going on about.

Of course! He has plenty of spiderman stuff too!! He's wearing spiderman crocs today with a pink shirt. It's incredibly likely that my son will slowly start to choose things a little more within the typical boy things as he enters elementary school. But he's kind of a quirky kid who really likes color and rainbow, and right now specifically pink and I will support what he chooses, and prep him for the potential push back until he decides otherwise. My point was just that if you have a kid that expresses interest in things that are slightly out of their gender norm, and you have those convos early - they understand that they are going outside the norm, and can continue to make that call as long as they feel comfortable. [/quote]

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