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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Woke signaling aside -- which this is by the way, conscious or not --[b] this always ends poorly. [/b]

You say you can't believe someone would give a three year old a hard time about something as silly as nail polish.

I say I can't believe a parent would set their child up for bullying or embarrassment over something as silly as nail polish.

I wear nail polish sometimes and my young two sons ask about it. I respond, "Nail polish is for girls. Are y'all ready for your snack?" Case closed.

I agree their interest in it is purely innocent, but because I love and care about them, I wouldn't open them up to ridicule. [/quote]

How so? I always let my son wear whatever he wanted, nail polish and princess costumes included, when he was little and it ended fine. He grew out of it before kindergarten and was never bullied.

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There's a spectrum. On one end is a total ban on cross dressing from they day he's born and on the other there's parents goading their elementary school aged boys to wear glittery bows and matching nail polish at school. Somewhere in the middle is a reasonable approach that allows little kids to experiment and play pretend without restriction with an [b]understanding that at some point it needs to be confined to the home and not put on display for the public[/b].

When my son was 2, I let him take a baby doll out and about in a little doll stroller. He did it with his older sister and it was fine. By 4 we kept that kind of play at home. By 6, he lost interest. [b]Kids understand that if mom and dad restrict certain activities to home-only, it means the activities are not widely socially acceptable[/b].[/quote]

Hmm, nope. Never did that and things turned out fine. Son was allowed to wear whatever weather appropriate outfit he wanted and do any safe activities he wanted outside the home. It didn’t end poorly. [/quote]

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