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[november_girl]

This morning ephraim and I have been looking at things for children's rooms. I have found the gender stereotypes to be shocking - why on earth do things need to be labelled as "for girls" or "for boys"? Why does it seem that there's almost always only a choice between something pale pink with princesses on or an identical thing in blue with tractors on?

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[nyarbaggytep]

That riles me up sooooooooo badly too, and I don't even have kids. I suspect that if I ever did I'd have to figure out how to make my own clothes and toys for them...

[november_girl]

It wasn't like that when we were kids - I wonder when and why it changed?

[littleonionz]

Nah, you would realize that all those 'my kids won't do/wear/eat/like *insert whatever it is you strongly object to here* go right out of the window:) Unless you really indoctrinate them, rather than just guiding them,leaning a sapling against a support, rather than pruning a bonzai, they will kinda chose their own way,which is good and healthy. Forcing either chips or strict vegan, xfactor or mozart on your kids is equally not cool.

[littleonionz]

reply to Baggy not sure how it ended up not below?

[lsowersby]

We painted Jack's room white. Still he has ended up with blue tractor things...

[renniek]

Ugh. I hate those kind of gender stereotypes. Shame there isn't wallpaper based on Where The Wild Things Are or The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

[littleonionz]

Where the Wild things are scares little little kids, (generally I'm sure not in all cases but my lil sissies didn't dig WTWTA for a few years I mean think about it from an 10 months old point of view...anyway, no, in general that is.

[november_girl]

What is Where The Wild Things Are anyway? I've never come across it.

[littleonionz]

Pssibly one of the most brilliant kids books evah, you'll get about ten copies of it from peeps, smile and make like it's the only one each time;)
Also must haves for the descerning genius/evil mastemind to be; The Very Hungry Catapillar and The Very Busy Spider.

[caddyman]

There's some interesting stuff here: http://mydeco.com/s/childrens-wallpapers/1761/

I particularly like the spider wallpaper: http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/dupenny/product/hand_printed_spider_wallpaper?P36=DFYNXP

It ain't cheap, mind you.

[november_girl]

Ooh - nursery rhyme murals! How cool!

Thanks!

[november_girl]

Nah - I really can't stand the way borders break up the flow of a room and make it look so much smaller. Nasty peely horrid things.

[littleonionz]

Gabe loves his Winnie the poo wallpaper, perhaps gentle rather than sissy, its good for children's worlds to be gentle where possible. I think sometimes we forget our children's taste in things isn't as sophisticated as ours.