My niece and nephew have been entirely pink/blue colour coded (in the societally orthodox manner). Their bedrooms are painted in those colours, they're dressed to match. My niece will say her favourite colour is pink (I didn't ask the same of my nephew). He plays with diggers, toy cars and so on, she colours in pictures of the Disney Princesses.
It's incredibly annoying.
It's far too ingrained to be able to directly contradict, but I feel I need to do what little I can to counter it; for example when I had a choice of a plastic easel in pink or a selection of primary colours, my niece got the latter as a gift.
Any suggestions for further subversion of this are welcome; but need to account for the facts that it's the parents expectation, and the children have been entirely trained to think that way. Just giving my nephew a doll's house, or my niece a train set are unlikely to get very far.
(A suggestion that it's none of my business how my brother raises his kids is probably also appropriate.)
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It's incredibly annoying.
It's far too ingrained to be able to directly contradict, but I feel I need to do what little I can to counter it; for example when I had a choice of a plastic easel in pink or a selection of primary colours, my niece got the latter as a gift.
Any suggestions for further subversion of this are welcome; but need to account for the facts that it's the parents expectation, and the children have been entirely trained to think that way. Just giving my nephew a doll's house, or my niece a train set are unlikely to get very far.
(A suggestion that it's none of my business how my brother raises his kids is probably also appropriate.)