Parents pop on a Post-it, then post it
A COUPLE is showing off their sense of humour in a response to a Denmark daycare that told them they should dress their baby daughter “more like a girl”.
Steve Rold recently posted a photo on Reddit of his monthold daughter Clementine with a sticky note bow stuck to her head.
“How my wife dressed our daughter the day after the teachers at daycare told her we should really be dressing her more like a girl,” the photo caption read.
Steve said he and his wife, Jessica, had been told by the daycare that they should consider dressing Clementine in dresses or put bows in her hair to help other students understand she was female, Yahoo Lifestyle reported.
Steve said on the online forum that he and his wife dressed their daughter in her brother’s hand-me-downs.
Steve and Jessica did not seem to be offended by the suggestion – they more just found it weird.
“I think (hope) it may be more of a cultural/generational thing for the women that work there. The daycare is in Denmark and is actually pretty darn amazing. It’s just people being people, worrying about weird people things,” Steve wrote on Reddit.
Others on Reddit found the daycare’s comments odd, as well.
“Why do they think they should even suggest what your child wears? Weird people,” one redditor commented.
“My 2-year-old daughter is misgendered often by strangers,” read another comment. “Like we’ll be grocery shopping and someone will say ‘isn’t he a good little helper’.”
The comments have not turned the family off the daycare, however.
“The suggestion was actually pretty mild but it was piled on to a hundred other similar ones that I’m sure all parents get, so my wife just felt the need to push back a tiny bit,” he said to Yahoo Lifestyle. “My wife was just trying to expose the humour inherent in the situation,” he added.