You really do have to fight it though (just to keep it in some sort of reasonable check, there is certainly no avoiding it). We have way more pink plastic crap than we’d like as parents. We don’t ban it (at least not all of it) or stop them playing with Barbie’s at other kids houses. And then they come home and ask us for Barbies and we explain why we’re against it, why we think it’s bad for them. Luckily the 6-year old is sharp as a tack and quite capable of mounting an intellectual argument. Even if we don’t win every argument, she’s thinking about it and that’s good.
