chill out project #1

[metaphortunate]

Chill out project, today's result:

1) Attempted not to freak out about things but just take things one at a time.
2) Junebug ate dinner late, got to bed a half hour late.
3) Junebug was an entire delight all evening, with a few freakout exceptions possibly caused by hunger.
4) Junebug can go upstairs all by himself and fetch Rocket a clean bib. In fact, will insist upon it.
5) Rocket has been sucking the ol' boobs dry, but that's probably not related.

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On another note, is there like a one drop rule for gender in kids' clothing? Rocket has a blue pyjama with pink piping and I realize it kind of looks like girls' clothes to me because of that pink despite that it is like 90% blue. I mean, he's wearing it anyway because I don't care, but I thought that was interesting.

Comments

[lovepeaceohana]

That sounds like it went fairly well? Awww at Junebug wanting to go upstairs all by himself to fetch clean bibs, it's so sweet when they want to do things like that for each other (and, well, to impress their folks).

I'd probably also regard any kids' clothes with any amount of pink as designed for girls, but that's because kids' clothing tends to be very strictly segregated with regard to pink. Some colors are more flexible, but pink pretty much guarantees "for girls," with the possible exception of high-end/fashionable/dapper kids' clothes, where I've seen some pastel button-downs meant to go with suits and stuff. My kids wear what they want, though, because fuck all that noise.

[wild_irises]

I always like to remind people that pink for girls is pretty recent (I've seen references saying Victorian times, and also 1920s). Before that, it was "dress him in manly pink, not that girly blue," because pink is related to red and red is the color of battle and war. The changeover seems to have been entirely a marketing tactic.

[lovepeaceohana]

Oh aye, it's something I'm quite fond of reminding others of also :3 I'm totally that "Actually, did you know that" person when it suits.

[thistleingrey]

Yes--pink is the one drop. My daughter has a dark blue top with butterflies on it and slightly puffy short sleeves. One of the butterflies has pink edging. I figure, hey, at least I found her a blue top amidst the overwhelming stocks of pink, purple, and glitter tops (purple is what some parents of girls resort to when avoiding pink, but then purple rarely appears for boys anymore as a result).

[lovepeaceohana]

It's a very strange phenomenon to watch, especially with toys. When Lego came out with the Lego Friends line - you know, the pink Legos - I was personally kind of disgusted because I'm of the opinion that Legos are for everybody. But my aunt and girl cousins were over the moon because that wasn't the message they were getting! Without something clearly marketed toward girls, i.e. pink, they'd treated it as primarily a boy thing.

Clothes get the same treatment ;-; I've noticed that sometimes a bright, almost violent purple will show up on boys' clothes as a contrast to other loud colors - say, purple accents on a shirt that's primarily black, with maybe white, green, or orange graphics. The other exception is character graphics: Buzz Lightyear's purple wings, Hawkeye's ... everything ... stuff like that. And super-fashionable fancy dress, but I don't know that I'd count that in the same category with clothes made for regular wear.

[thistleingrey]

*nods* I am hiding from pink LEGO sets. Like, I still haven't seen one in person. lalalalala.

[metaphortunate]

It's just adorably sweet. And then today he thanked Mr. E for carrying him upstairs at bedtime, and hugged his leg. My heart, I melt.

[lovepeaceohana]

Awww <3 <3 <3