I'd like to raise my son in a gender equity household. That is to say, I don't want to him to play with toys because they're for boys, I want him to like pink if he wants to, I want him to know that there are no "boy things" and "girl things", just things.

Okay, so here's the deal. It was raining, and I asked my son if he'd like an umbrella. He said yes, so I handed him my umbrella, and he says "actually, I'm okay, I have a hood on my sweatshirt". Sure. Fine. No big deal.

Next day, still raining. I open up my umbrella and then remember I forgot the car keys in the house. "Hold this" I tell him and hand him the umbrella. "No, I don't want to" he replies.

"C'mon, just hold it" I say as I shove it into his little hands. I run in, grab the car keys, and run back out only to find my umbrella on the ground. Whatever. We walk to the car.

"Get under the umbrella," I tell him. "You don't want to get rained on, do you?"

"No thanks, I'm fine," he says, as he walks just inches away from dryness.

"Why don't you want to use this umbrella?" I ask him finally.

His answer: Because it has flowers on it. That's right. He doesn't like the flowers. Won't even stand under the umbrella.

Mamas, help. What am I supposed to make of this? Is public school turning my boy into a pink-hating flower nazi? And don't say it's just a boy thing, because that's bullshit. Or is it? I dunno! What do I do?