Kyle came to me yesterday evening, frowning and looking very troubled.
He held this up and said, "I don't want this, it is pink and it is horrible."
Maybe the princesses further exacerbated his dislike for the pen, but I think it probably has alot to do with the colour.
Purple used to be his favorite colour and now it has since changed to blue.
Once, he asked me, "Mummy, is your favorite colour pink?"
My reply to him was, "Nope, my favorite colour is blue."
His response was, "But blue is a colour for boys!"
And I had to confuse him further by saying, "Whoever said that? There is nothing wrong with girls liking blue or black for that matter, or boys liking pink."
These days things for kids are so gender specific. Blue and cars are for boys, while pink and princesses are for girls. Interestingly, when we are at some hospitals, we see the babies in the nursery window and we can almost tell the gender of the babies, just by looking at the colour of the blankets.
I think colours do not need to be gender specific, however according to this article, preference for colours it seems is in our genes! That surely doesn't explain why I like blue though.
At least there are no debates as yet on the colour yellow or red for that matter…
hmmm I don’t know, but it might be because all these people whom they ‘tested’ on are already subtly and subconsciously influenced by colour selection since young! So it may be biased. I grew up thinking blue is for boys and it’s hard to change the mentality that pink is for boys now. haha. But anw, Kyle must have disliked the colour and the princesses… Like how my baby nephew (2 plus years old) only likes cars….
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