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Wow, Did you guys see this?
I think this is absolutely ridiculous:
Re: Wow, Did you guys see this?
Similar to when that little boy dressed as a girl.. maybe for Halloween, but I can't remember the details. They blamed the mom for confusing him and "allowing" that behavior.
Bleh.
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That's my take too, Erin. I personally love the picture just because it shows a mother and son spending time together being happy. Do you think these people also have a problem letting their sons help them in the kitchen baking cupcakes, playing with dolls, or other things that blur traditional gender roles?
S/O to the Equal Pay post: I remember reading an article about Sweden and how children are raised without stigmatizing them for playing with gendered toys (i.e. boys aren't discourage from playing homemaker and with dolls and such and girls are encouraged to play with trucks and action figures etc), which has led there to be more pay equality in the workforce and more willingness for men to become stay at home fathers, without the expectation that a woman will give up her career for children or the expectation that she will have her career and the kids and take care of the house and her husband and basically be "Supermom."
See, I will probably be the one staying home with the kids, but that is mainly because I make a whole lot less than DH does so it makes more sense. I'm not doing it because it's my place and not his to do it. If I were working in a higher-paid satisfying job, making more than him and he were in my job, I can see him choosing to be a stay at home dad.
It's not about making men stay at home with the kids while their wives work, its about not leting society dictate the gender roles with such a heavy hand that men feel emasculated by their wives making more money or not being SAHMs. Just my opinion. *Stepping off soapbox*
I guess that I should have mentioned that in my previous post. I make about $3.00 less per hour than Lance and it would not financially work out for him to stay home over me. I am sure that he would do a great job if the financial roles were reversed. Although, I cannot imagine my own father staying home to raise my sister and I.
I do agree that it is completely ridiculous that people allow society to determine whether or not their son should play dress up or their daughter climb a tree.
Holy cow! I actually saw this ad 2-3 days ago on Pinterest and didn't even realize that there was toenail polish involved, much less the color of said polish. So let me get this "straight"...pardon the pun...is it ok to paint his toenails as long as they're a more "manly" color like red or blue, or should we skip the toenail polish altogether?
Either way, I guess my son's already screwed, since we've done both colors of polish, and...horrors! We've even painted his FINGERNAILS!!! And once or twice, there might even have been some eyeliner involved. Might as well start shopping for dresses, because he's clearly going to be the next RuPaul. And you know what? Even if he was, I'd be ok with that, because it's about loving your kid for who he or she is, not about some stupid, uninformed perception of an ulterior agenda.
Just for the record, my family never went out of the way to enforce popularly conceived gender roles on any of us kids. My boy cousins and I played beauty shop, fashion show, and plain old house, and I made my fair share of mud puddles and had a Hot Wheels collection designed to make any kid green with envy.
The whole thing is ridiculous. Honestly, if people spent half as much time worrying about themselves and their kids as they do everyone else/else's, the world would be a much better place.
This article is really unfortunate.
And can I just say that kid is adorable???
And that Erin's story makes me laugh...I can just imagine a 3 and 5 year old doing that, and I think it's hilarious! Kind of reminds me of the Friends episode where Joey puts on layer after layer of Chandler's clothes (or was it the other way? I kind of remember a sweater vest comment, so must've been Joey).
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I went home last night and found the original print/ad in the current J Crew catalog...it's placed with a bunch of other pics of staff and little qoutes about them. Really, like pp's said, it's a stinkin mom and son hanging out, spending quality time together, so why does it matter if it's painting toe nails or playing with Transformers (haha, first "boy" thing that came to mind).
For us, if we can make it work, DH will be a SAHD. I don't really know how I feel about (b/c at times DH likes to say Oscar likes him better and I get jealous over that). We don't plan on TTC soon, but if we were to, DH's current monthly salary is the same as the average cost of childcare in the city, so why wouldn't we have him stay home? The ideal job would be to have something he could do part time, on his on schedule from home,.
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