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| Jun 27, 2011 by LISA ESTALL |
Kingston and Zuma Rossdale enjoyed time at the fair with their nanny in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday (June 26).
Zuma, wearing a cast with a Nike wristband, rode a pony while his big brother went sliding in a bouncy house.
The kids definitely lead a busy and active life. They were recently seen leaving the Color Me Mine pottery studio last week.
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I love these 2 little boys. I think they are absolutely adorable but putting 2 little pig tails in his hair makes him look like a girl.
So what do you suggest? To make him "look" like a boy, cause he...he... isnt a boy enough? Gosh, you must be very afraid, that he isnt enough boy. Do you know what i think? I think he must be what he is- if long hair with pig tails is beloved from him i think its his life. I dont think his hair is more important than... his heart. If the child says: i want them i would let him have his own taste. If the child says: i feel silly with the spam on my head i would do the same again: let him be himself. I think he must have fun in his childhood. He is a...child, you know, after all. And dont tell me its irresponsible to let a kid be a kid. Now or never: he will be old some day, dont worry about that. We are all aging. Dont worry, dont be afraid: Peter Pan WILL grow up. Every child grows up. Nobody can stop the time. The time is stronger than everything.
Put down the beer bottle, you make no sense. This kid will have issues. Just send him to that tenderizes pre school in Sweden with all the other nut jobs.
He will have issues because of two rubber bands in his hair?
Only if your kids decide to bully him because of it.
Here we go again. Know it all Janna to the rescue of the "free spirits"
Listen no matter how much you teach your children to be kind and respectful there will undoubtedly be times when they go with the crowd. Be realistic for once.
Sadly I tend to agree with you about peer pressure. You can raise the most kind hearted children around, but when it comes down to being accepted, 9 times out of ten they will follow what their friends are doing. I am all for individuality but I think it's up to parents to try to lessen the chances of their child being bullied by making them assimilate and NOT use them to make a personal statement. These kids are toddlers/preschoolers and are not equipped with making the correct choices for themselves yet. Its up to mom and dad until the child has a
mind of their own.
I disagree with you about Janna though. I think she makes very educated comments despite my not agreeing with them the majority of the time.
Agree! Any parent that uses their child as a dress up doll is asking for problems. Additionally kids do go along with the crowd, as long as they are not drinking, doing drugs or having age inappropriate relations, you truly can't control what they may or may not say to other kids around them.
Disagree though- Janna'sarguments are rudimentary at best. She likes to antagonize for the h*ll of it. Kind of sad, her life must be empty.
"Any parent that uses their child as a dress up doll is asking for problems".
I like that comment and IMHO, it belongs above the photo. Clearly the child did not make a request for pigtails or a ponytail, although for his own comfort in the heat, a haircut might be in order. Notice I said a haircut, not bleaching, dyeing etc. or some elaborate 'do' like a mohawk.
I second your opinion. I also like Tara's point, No matter what you teach your child, they will tend to follow the herd. it's up to parents to make them mainstream as much as possible. This equality cr*p has gone too far.
Before you are accepted from other people you must accept yourself. Clock?
Name-calling? How sad, yet not surprising. Thanks for proving my point.
I think most important thing is what the kid think and want. Other people may want and think something else but my kid will not live for them. It lives for itself. Not for the people.
And women wearing pants in the 1800s made them look like men, and were called all sorts of names (or worse). Is this really a history we want to repeat... over rubber bands in the hair?
wow, guys. wow. just because someone says putting his hair like that makes him look like a girl DOES NOT
1.) mean that they think he is going to have gender-identity issues.
2.) mean that they think he is going to be gay-straight-lesbian and/or transgendered
3.) mean that they actually really even care if he did somehow turn out to be gay-straight-lesbian and/or transgendered
4.) mean that they are awful and hateful people with mean and terrible children for bullies
....it just means that they think he looks like he could possibly be confused with a little girl with his hair pulled up like that.... which he could. GET OVER YOURSELVES, PEOPLE!!!! GET A GRIP!!!!! he is a beautiful little boy with delicate and cute little features and when you pull his hair up in a style that is normally reserved for little girls you are going to get people who at first glance probably THINK that he is a girl at first, and at least a dozen little old ladies who INSIST he is a little girl no matter how many times you say he's not. nobody here is hating on the poor kid, they're just commenting on his unfortunate hair style for the day. and come on people, puhhhhhleeeeeeeeease....if you thnk for one second that this child asked for his hair to be like that and we are all evil-childhood-innocence-squashers for picking a little boy that desperately loves his hair in pig-tails, you also need to get a grip... this hair style was dreamed up by a girlie-girl mother who is obsessed with hair and fashion and unfortunately has not given birth to or adopted a baby girl to play hair and makeup with... trust me on this one. i have friends like this. i knows 'em when i sees 'em....
it's very hot out in the summer --obviously. where a child is concerned comfort over looks is most important. i'm sure they didn't want zuma to be uncomfortable. it's really not a big deal.
Then cut his hair. It grows back!
They solved the problem by putting it up. Why should they cut his hair?
The "hot" excuse would be valid, had he not been dressed in cord overalls and leather boots. But agree the hair is not too much of an issue, although you can simply cut it. If it was anyone else I would give them the benefit of the doubt, but Gwen likes to try too hard with her BOYS.
Exactly, if it was because of the heat why dress him in leather!?
So true. If she really was concerned with his being overheated why does she continually put them in clothes that are not matched to the climate. leather motorcycle boots and heavy overalls? Give me a break. Come up with another excuse ladies.
She tries too hard...yeah, that's putting it mildly. As someone alluded to earlier, she treats these children like accessories or "dress up dolls".
to Nina Mike : You're right. Gwen and Gavin let their kids be kids and they are good parents.
Those kids are beautiful and adorable
thank you. I thin kids are not so stupid as they might...look like...for...not everybody, thanks god. I think i have an example: look at Marcia Cross s twins. Well? Kids are not stupid. And even if they are twins they are very different from each other. I dont know what else to say.
Pig tails are on the sides of your head. I think he's cute. Like a little Zuma wrestler.
I think people make far too much fuss over small things. Why do boys have to look a certain way, and girls another? Not all men wear the same look, some wear their hair long. And plenty of women chop their hair off into those "mom" haircuts. The comfort many of you take in those actions is that you see many people doing it. What if it were just one or two moms with that haircut- does it change the haircut? Or make her less of a woman?
Someone earlier was talking about going with the flow every once in a while- what isn't said about this is that the flow is set by people before us. Zuma won't care about ponytails unless he's taught to- it is adults that set gender norms, not children. Gender norms are completely made up- they have nothing to do with genetic make-up or ability. An average man who wears high heels and dresses and make-up will still be physically stronger than an average woman who wears jeans and sneakers and lifts weights. Other than those physical sexual distinctions, the rest doesn't really matter. Toddlers won't tease Zuma for ponytails- they accept life and everything in it far more easily than we corrupted adults do. So no need to worry about him.
Janna is right- if you teach your children that having long hair is weird, then people like Zuma will get made fun of. At one point, most people in this country taught their children that black people were sub-human- some still do. It took a large collective effort- and lots of going against the flow- to diminish this practice. The same logic applies here, wouldn't you say?
The boys look adorable, by the way :-).
Your argument is baseless. Try again!
Just because you don't get it or don't agree doesn't mean it's baseless. Respond when you have something to say. You don't even validate your own statement, and have the nerve to call my argument baseless...
And for the record, I don't believe gender roles based on physicality are non-existent- males are better suited for certain tasks (i.e. lifting heavy objects), and females are better suited for others (i.e. feeding babies.. we carry the milk, after all). What I'm against is enforcement of those roles... why not let them play out naturally?
Personally I do think there is great harm in NOT identifying gender specific roles. It leads to a confused society. To allow a child to determine their own sexuality does nothing more than perpetuate this cycle of false sense of equality. Let's face facts, we do not live in a balanced world and I for one am grateful for this. This need to remove any type of definition of differences between people is creating a society where no one strives to achieve anymore. For instance there is a school in Sweden, which an earlier post alluded to. They have decided that they are not calling any child by "girl" or "boy" because they WANT the child to discover for themselves what they are. In a country which is pretty forward thinking like Sweden the reaction has been pretty negative. Even those parents understand that social mores are necessary to establish a sense of self, security, confidence and individuality. When did it become a bad thing to draw dilineations between the sexes? It's a fact, men are physically stronger, Title 9 only afforded women the same opportunities as men, BUT they had less endurance requirements and training tests. Is that fair? That is not equal what it has done is lowered the bar to make it so EVERYONE gets the same rights without having to actually have earned it. It starts at the level of toddlers. Go to any playgroup, you see mothers secretly comparing children to one another. Life is meant to be challenging by making everyone equal we become a nation of wimps. Pure and simple.
Well said, I agree this forced movement at making everyone perform on the same playing field will eventually backfire. It's certainly important to emphasize the inherent differences in each gender. Why were our parents and our grandparents able to grow up virtually unscathed despite dealing with more hardships than we or our kids ever will have to. Yes there have been major social improvements with race equality however this attempt to be a nation of great equalizers has gotten out of hand.
I dont think that gender is how you look like but how you feel. If you feel good in something, your place is there, you belong there, if you are in agony, somebody must say: stop, over, enough! Whats the problem how long is your hair if you are happy or how can your hair help you, tell me, if you are sad, so you want to die? Dont tell me things i know. From my own life. If his heart beats for girls, the hair and her... colour or style cant change the feeling because feelings are not the colour of our hair. No colour or style can give you love for women or men if your heart cant beat for them or no colour can change the love for women or men if you have it in you. IF ZUMA IS HAPPY ITS ALL THAT MATTERS, CLOCK? Remember my advice: you are what your heart is. Grow up.
What planet are you from, freak!
What about you,...f...?
What planet do you suggest?
From what planet do you suggest me to come from and what will happen if im not from there?
Is this a warning, must i be afraid and what must finally be and finally feel to make you feel happy? Which is the right planet? Tell me who i must be and i be it, tel me where i must come from and i will come from it, i will kiss your feet and be what you want, cause i can see blue tears in your disappoineted eyes: i am not what you want me to be and it hurts you that i am not coming from where you want me to come from. cheers.
"To allow a child to determine their own sexuality..." I definitely did not mention anything about sexuality in my post, but since you did, I'll address it: no one, and I mean NO one, determines another person's sexuality. No one else can dictate your sexuality, it's something you discover on your own. So many parents attempt to do this, and make their kids miserable in the process- and the reason is because your sexuality is no one's business but your own.
The more I read of your post, the more I see that you missed the point of mine. I said that I DO believe that gender roles exist- I read about the Swedish school and I for one think it is a complete waste of time. There is nothing wrong with identifying as "him" or "her". But I think that gender roles based on physicality and social gender norms invented by adults are two different things. A boy wearing pony tails is a physical expression established in our culture as a gender norm for girls; it has absolutely nothing to do with gender roles. And yet so many people confuse the two. If I shaved my head now, it will not affect my ability to produce breast milk. If a little boy tells me he wants to breastfeed, I would tell him no- not because he isn't supposed to (imposed gender norm), but because boys aren't ABLE to (gender role). Am I a little clearer now? A haircut doesn't determine gender is my point.
"It starts at the level of toddlers. Go to any playgroup, you see mothers secretly comparing children to one another."
It doesn't start at the level of toddlers, Anonymous- as your next sentence so poignantly indicates, it is MOTHERS doing the comparing... and they pass that onto their kids. Playgroup mothers compare their kids because they have insecurities; it's not to maintain some sort of "healthy competition" that I think you're speaking of. And insecure mothers produce insecure babies. There are plenty of real challenges out there- whether your boy wears pony tails vs. another who doesn't isn't one of them.
Zuma will look back on his baby pix when he's an adult and say MOM WTF? BUT they ALL do!! He'll be fine! He's going to always be the son of celebs and will probably follow suit! Besides, his DAD has rocked a tail in his hair a time or 2! Get over it!!!!
I dont think styling is the same as teaching a child to drink or take drugs or beat people or hate. I think styling is not a criminal. I think styling is freedom of the soul. I think if Zuma will grow up as a good kid, who cares how hes dressed and styled. In this world there are too many "right" dressed and styled kids who are...dont want to use the word so: very unpolite little people, who will be im afraid 1 day very unpolite old people. If 1 kid is good, inside, nothing else matters. And i im teaching my kids to think the same. Never look at something else but the heart in 1 person. The heart is everything. Stop looking for something else, searching for something else. Its the heart that matters. Leave him alone.
I bought a pair of converse sneakers in 1968 for school gym and the sales person gave my mother hell. The school I graduated from in '73 didn't allow girls to wear pants until 72, or the boys mustaches or sandals w/o socks. My daughter got 2 just 2 holes per earlobe - ghastly at 16. The man at the local donut shop here has black painted nails. Point is, at some point it all loses its shock factor and so will Zuma's hair.
And who doesn't laught at their pictures as kids.
This kid is fine.
P.S.: I dont want to fight here with you, people. Im sorry if i made somebody feel bad. All i am sayin is: if 1 child is happy, its all that matters.
Nina mike you are an illiterate fool!
If u call freedom foolish, you need glasses. But most of all: you need something inside, that isnt there in you. I cant see it.
Freedom is everything. Grow up.
Stop living for other people: live finally for yourself. Cheers.
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