My partner and I are not sporty types, but I'm trying to keep this from our kids in the hopes that they will be encouraged to discover the joys of exercise that I've heard so much about. So we took the kids to cheer on our nephew in a hockey game last Sunday.
After the
game celebration of Canadian identity, Vincent's 11-year-old hockey star cousin took four-year-old Vin* to the Tim Hortons in the sports complex for a donut. Or a doughnut. Whichever is Canadian.
Vincent chose the "fanciest" doughnut and showed it to us, beaming.
It is a very pretty doughnut.
I don't give a hot goldarn if my son wants to eat something fancy and pink. What I want to know, though, is how to prepare him for a world that believes that certain foods are gendered and will respond to such choices with derision.
*I have a vague feeling I ought to pseudonymize my children. Something to do with safety... ?
