Tomorrow is
Pink Day.
In 2007 two Nova Scotia students marshaled their friends and others via email to wear pink in support of a younger student who had been bullied for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. Now we have Pink Day on April 13th to show tolerance and support anti-bullying efforts.
In this house we're already planning.
My daughters plans are laughable. She plans to wear pink. She decided this 3 days ago. Course, I don't know how she was going to get around it if she didn't want to participate - it's not like she has anything to wear that *isn't* pink.
My son's plans are sadly fraught with more concern. He wants to wear pink. Asked me what we have that he could wear - I suggested we raid his sisters closet or maybe wear pink polish.
'Polish!' he cried delight.
To date my son has been well chuffed to sport blue, yellow or green polish. He has an older sister, he does what she does. He likes how it looks. Recently, mostly now that he has started kindergarten, he has been increasingly concerned about what his friends will think when they see his fingers or toes all done up.
He think about it for a second longer and says somewhat worriedly some friends will laugh.
I asked him what he was going to do.
He said 'maybe I will hide my fingers every-time I'm talking to him'. I said for sure he could do that.
Then he said 'No, I think I'll just ignore him instead'
Wise words from a young dude.
Tomorrow please wear pink so everyone can wear what they want to wear when they want to wear it no matter who they are, what they are, what they like and all that stuff.
Cheers
Barb
