color and texture

[gosling]

I said to Chip this morning, "Fredrick is the little mouse who collects color and stories and sustains everyone throughout the cold, dark Winter. Let's name him Frederick." And started to cry.

I think more than anything this is what I want for my son. I was looking at the kids in my class today, and thinking about how, for so many of the boys, their families are taking color and texture away from them little by little without even noticing. At four, the girls all had soft, bright clothes, but many of the boys no longer did. And looking at their nap bedding I saw something similiar.

I want all the color and texture in the world for my son.

Suddenly it feels more important to get around to painting some of the white walls in our new house bright colors.

Comments

[gingicat]

How odd that the boys at your school don't wear bright colors... it seems that there's so much bright primary-color clothing out there for little boys.

It is true that the high-school-age boys at the Academy tend to wear drab colors. Perhaps I'll start teasing them about that. :)

[gosling.livejournal.com]

There is bright colored stuff that fits kids up to about age three (maybe four if the kid is on the small side.) After that it all seems to devolve to inspid pink things and clothing that looks like it has been dragged through the mud. (Parents have commented to me on the difficulty of getting even red socks.)