When Rheann MacLaren brought her son to the toy store, she would have never expected a stranger to pick on him.
Rheann MacLaren describes in a post on her Facebook that a stranger came over to her son and tried to persuade him that he really didn’t want to buy a ‘girly’ pink buggy.
MacLaren says the woman approached her son and said,
“Oh you don’t want that, it’s just for girls, not boys! It’s all pink and girly. There’s cars and dinosaurs over there, why would you want that girly thing?!”
“I was about to have a go at you, tell you off for being so judgemental and critical of a small child – but my boy got there first, and answered you so much better than I could’ve,” MacLaren said. Her son replied with a simple,
“‘Cos I like it.’”
Mom added in her post that her son,
“..loves dinosaurs and monsters, but sometimes he likes to play with a doll and pram. He likes pink things and watches with fascination when I put my make up on. Am I worried? No, not in the slightest. My child will grow up a well rounded, accepting boy who will NEVER feel pressured to conform to gender stereotypes.”
MacLaren says,
“I really hope you saw how happy he looked as he walked out the shop with his girly pink dolls pram and think twice about saying anything similar to a complete stranger again.”
There has been much debate on gender stereotypes recently, but to pick on a child seems pretty low.
What do you think of this strangers comment? Would you ever say something like this to a child who simply enjoys all toys?
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Mom Confronts Stranger Who Bullied Her Son At The Toy Store is an article from: LifeDaily