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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son likes to paint his toe nails, probably because I (mom) do it and it's fun to do together, and colorful, and he's 3. He just asked one day, and we did it.

Today he asked me to take it off, so I did and said "ok, cool, do you want to leave it off or another color?" and he said a childcare person told him it was "only for girls." I told him that person is wrong and sometimes people are wrong and nail polish is for anyone who likes nail polish. Any advice on what to say to him to both make him confident in whatever he wants to do and feel OK ignoring childcare people in some instances (like this) but not in most others? I feel like we should talk about it, but also I don't want to give this idea credit by talking too much about it.

Secondarily, I generally love this childcare person and my kids also love her, I'm a little annoyed with her because obviously we knew we were OK with the nail polish, but then told him otherwise... :( [/quote]

At least in this situation, she’s a better caregiver than you.

Stop trying to encourage your boy to look like a girl.[b] Let him be a boy. [/b]

Are you single parenting?[/quote]

I don't wear nail polish.  Am I not a woman?  Good grief.[/quote]
Good grief, no one cares about your nails.[/quote]

You aren’t very bright, are you?[/quote]

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