Heya, so a bit of advice here would be appreciated. I've a 2.11 yo ds and 4.5 yo dd who are both rather amazing (to me anyway!)
Lately however my ds has started to want to dress up in his sisters princess costumes, any time he sees me painting my nails he wants his done too and wants bobbles/hair clips in his hair. Now my answer to this has always been "but you're a boy sweetie, this is girl stuff, you don't want it." To which he normally just goes and does something else.
He's also got a football that I try and play with him (he really does love kicking that ball about!) But I'm a single mum and he only really sees me and his sister day to day, no involvement from exp so he's got no male role model. I do what I can boy wise that I think he would like but he's surrounded by girls so it's understandable he wants to do girl stuff too.
But am I pushing a stereotype of a boy onto him too much? Should I just let him do 'girl' stuff? I've seen a lot of people comment on how you should let a child explore their gender etc, let them discover what they do and don't like and mostly boys do go through a phase of wanting to do girl stuff.
I guess I'm just worried that if I keep pushing a boy stereotype on him then he'll be unhappy and it might affect him later in life. I would love him no matter what though.
So should I let him do what he wants? Or should I keep trying to show him what boys like to do too?
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Am I pushing gender stereotypes onto my son?
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QuietlyCurious92 · 19/07/2014 09:00
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