I'm not sure I follow. LOL. Are you saying you won't buy a pink seat because the child sitting in it doesn't like pink?
Yes. Sort of. But I'm saying it my typical hard to understand way. Welcome to the mess inside my head!
I tend to gently pursuade my children that they like the color choice that I like.
I actually do this too! But I can't go as far as "persuading" pink because it is so much my favorite color that I would feel it was totally obvious I was trying to get my way.
No, I think she doesn't want to push her color choices on a kid. Kinda like I LOVE purple, but if I had a little girl that wanted a pink seat, I'd let her get pink (shudder, I strongly dislike pink) if the seat we needed came in pink.
Yes, pretty much this. Although I do draw the line at seat colors I strongly dislike. Which interestingly is blacks/grays/neutrals! My life needs color!
If the child asked for pink, I'd be for it. Meanwhile, I've always lived purple on DD2 and she's decided EVERYTHING must be pink all the time. She has a pink sky FR85 waiting for her to turn 4 or outgrow her seat rf so she should be happy.
I would love to have a kid that loves pink... one dd tried to love pink for awhile for me but I could tell she was faking. Also we are picky about our pinks here. Certain pinks work for us, others just don't.
Does this obsession extend to clothing colors?
Personally, I view the carseat as an extension of the car, not a possession of the child so I'd have no problem picking a color because I like it. Kinda like furniture. When DD1 was little I bought a toddler size recliner. I picked it to match the adult furniture, even though it the chair itself was for her. It never even occurred to me that she might look at it and dwell on me picking a color I liked.
Only car seats as far as I can tell. When it comes to clothes we get by largely on hand-me-downs and gifts and of course have no say in those. The few times I have bought clothes I have bought the cheapest option regardless of color. If there was a color choice I bought what would most please the largest majority of children since everything becomes a hand-me-down.
I have tried viewing the car seats as extensions of the car but I can't seem to stop seeing them as the domain of the child since they
have to sit in them. This time I italicized
have lol because I think a part of me might feel a bit... hmm... bad? picky? controlling? overbearing? I'm not going to come up with the right word so please excuse me. I think this is for two reasons: I am crazy for car seat safety so my kids ride restrained much longer than the majority of their peers, and as such 1.) I need my kids to be on board about their own safety and I can only imagine a seat they like helping because 2.) I quit riding a bike in middle school because that is when my parents made helmet use non-negotiable and the helmet they required was ugly and uncomfortable. See my stupid thought processes at work again?
If I liked neutral seats I'd probably give the kids no say- I'd be Henry Ford about it. But I love colorful seats! However I know colors are as individual as people. Just as I would hate riding in a black seat (okay, I do ride in a black seat, but I would love car manufacturers to offer more choices!!) I don't want to be the reason someone is unhappy in their seat. So when I was buying Britax Marathons 9 years ago I sadly passed up Foofy because what if my kid hated pink and I was sentencing them to 6 years in a pink seat? Same reason the next Britax was Onyx and not Meghan. Thankfully we all liked Cowmoo for the Frontier and Flora for the Radian (My dc wanted Flora or the pink one. I will admit I steered him towards Flora because the pink one was too pink for me.) And I was half happy and sad when the pink CCO was retired because if I could no longer get it I could not longer lust for it. I'm drooling over the pink houndstooth Radian that is supposed to be coming out, but I won't be getting it. And the reason this came up for me is because I'm not going to let myself enter to win the Britax Advocate G4 because my favorite two color choices are pink but I refuse to let myself get pink! GAH!!
For my kid whom has patiently let me type this out (and lives with me which by now I am sure you realize requires patience): :yeahthatmad::jive::yeahthatsad::spit:
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