It's funny how early that stuff starts. We have a child and one day when he was three he came home from daycare crying because he couldn't wear nail-varnish.

It's funny how early that stuff starts. We have a child and one day when he was three he came home from daycare crying because he couldn't wear nail-varnish. There was a long conversation where he said "The girls have coloured nails, I want coloured nails but boys can't". I told him that men can paint their nails if they wanted to, and we could do his. He told me "But you don't .." so I had to spend a few weeks wearing different coloured nailvarnish myself before he'd accept it was both possible and permitted. After a while he lost interest, but he went through a similar phase where he'd previously liked all his clothes, but then later decided that he didn't want to wear any pink because that was a colour for girls. Now he's four and he'll wear pink again, but it took some persuasion to get him to start again.