Bless ya for your kind words ofsupport and encouragement!
Hadn't thought of anyone puking...is there no end to the list of possibilities?
Oh well, only a few months to go, then got the 14 year old to plan for....oh, no forgot! Booked her into Southport to meet / watch the Gods of WCS ..maybe she won't want another party after that?? Always the optimist
We have also moved on to a place where no one bats an eye lid when a 28year old man wears a pink alice band in his hair and dances with other men (which is as it should be, IMO)
Sometimes, Martin, your attitude to certain things just doesn't go with your usual perception of life. I thought you were an 'anything goes as long as you are happy' kind of a guy.
By and large, little kids do develop gender-related interests, at a very early age (1+ years) - frankly, I don't believe that's down to marketing influences, there's a large part of it that's genetic.
Marketing is there because of the differences - it doesn't create the differences in the first place. Although it may well help to entrench them.
Matters of taste are notoriously subjective. For me, it's ugly because it squashes the huge diversity of childhood into two boxes, and reduces the subtle differences between the sexes to false nails and whoopie cushions. You obviously don't share my distaste, and that's 100% fine.
I had a military upbringing. We had parties - invited friends over, Mum made cake, everything was served on paper plates or plastic cups, on a paper table covering so Mum could just sweep the whole lot into the bin bags. Then we were shoved outside with large, cheap sponges and buckets of water. Fights were fun, only a few tears (which a chocolate roll and some jelly babies usually solved quite quickly) and then they were all packed home with their piece of birthday cake in a napkin. The good old days ;-)
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