She Allowed Her Son To Pick Out A Shimmery New Pair Of Shoes, But Her Ex Made Her Son Cry And Called Her A Bad Parent For Allowing Him To Wear A “Girl’s Shoe”
This woman has a son who is 4-years-old, and right now, his favorite colors are pink and anything that includes some glitter.
As for his favorite toys, her son really loves trucks and Hot Wheels at the moment.
“And anything he can knock down and crash and pretend to be on fire,” she said.
At her son’s age, it’s also very common for kids to be going through growth spurts, and he is at the tail end of a big one right now. So, all of a sudden, he has outgrown basically all of his shoes.
That’s why she recently took her son to the store and picked up two new pairs.
The first pair of shoes is a beige boot that has some shimmer. According to her, the boot would look pretty “gender neutral” if it didn’t have any of the shimmer.
“He really wanted them, and I didn’t want to argue,” she reasoned.
“He’s usually picky about the shoes I get him, so we got those.”
She also ordered a second pair of shoes for her son online– which are a blue, more stereotypical “boy’s shoe” that her son also picked out.
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Anyway, she was just happy that her son was happy with the new footwear. But then, when her son saw her ex, it all came crashing down.
Apparently, her ex was giving her son so much slack about the shoes that her son actually started crying!
She tried to tell her ex to be nicer to their child, but her ex wouldn’t let up and even started berating her, too.
“Telling me that I’m not a good parent because I’m not teaching our son right from wrong,” she recalled.
And according to her ex, it’s “wrong” to allow her son to pick out and wear a “girl’s shoe.”
She seriously disagrees with her ex’s perspective, though, and called him out for basically bullying their own child. Nonetheless, her ex just became even angrier when she tried to defend the footwear choice.
This has left her feeling seriously confused about the situation, too.
“I feel like in this day and age, it shouldn’t matter,” she vented, “But my ex had such a strong reaction.”
That’s why she’s now been wondering if allowing her son to pick out his own “girl” shoes was really so wrong or not.
Do you think it should matter what kind of shoes her son picked out if it made him happy? Why do you think her ex was treating her and her son like that over a pair of boots? How would you have reacted in this situation?
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