The boys go in blue and the girls in pink. The boys wear pants and the girls dressed. Girls wear braids and pigtails and boys have short or loose hair. This could be a very basic summary of the trend in the image of babies and children.
We all move, more or less, within those margins, since we do not dress our children with dresses, nor do we dress them with clothes intended for boys (although this is more unisex and it would not be so strange either).
All but Canadian parents who have decided not to reveal to anyone the sex of their already born baby and give you total freedom to dress both with clothes for boys and with clothes for girls.
The couple, formed by Kathy Witterick, 38, and David Stocker, 39, already have two boys, called Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2. These two children started, at about 18. months of age, to choose the clothes they wanted to wear and their parents were not limited to the children's area, but they were also allowed to choose between what they could find in the girls section.
They can also wear the hairstyle they like best, whether they have long or short hair. Jazz, the eldest, for example, has already been seen in a pink dress and currently wears long hair, below the shoulders, collected with a ponytail.
As the marriage says, they want to give their children the freedom to choose what they want to be. With the two children they already have, there has always been that capacity for decision, but people knew they were children, despite everything. Now, with the baby that has just been born, whom they have called Storm, they have not even wanted to tell anyone their sex.
Criticisms of this family have not been long in coming, for wanting to safeguard the psychological integrity of those children who may be mocked by other children. However, voices have also appeared supporting their way of proceeding, as it is a way of breaking with established social norms that do not have to be immovable.
As one teacher once told me: "there is nothing wrong with wearing a banana peel on your head, but the first one to wear it is surely everyone's mockery." Personally I think I would never do something like that with my children. It is not that it seems bad to me, much less, but that I remember my childhood, when they said to me "girl" those adults who did not know how to distinguish my sex, and the truth is that I did not like it too much. Now many adults look at my children and ask if they are boys and girls and many directly say "watch out for the girl." If this happens by dressing them in children's clothes, imagine what would happen if they dressed in dresses and wore braids.
By the way, I, seeing the baby's face, I'm almost sure it's another boy.
