"Your sister is weird!" what?! D:

Varkolak

Varkolak

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My brother recently got interested into ponies because of my collection, he's always coming into my room looking on the floor and shelves for the booklets that come inside the pony boxes since he only owns 1 baity cotton candy and a stuffed pinkie pie, he considers the books from my ponies his collection.
he took a booklet to school one day and showed it to a couple of his friends and one girl had asked him why he had a girly book. he got embarrassed and told her "its my sissy's, she's got a lot of ponies! she collects them and has a whole bunch!!!" he told me she said
"your sister is weird! why would anyone collect ponies?!"

i most certainly am not weird!

but that's not the point.

are ponies becoming unpopular with the younger crowd? i know my brother is only into them because i started collecting, and watching the show with him. he loves pinkie pie the best because she's funny. but its always been like this. when i collect something, he likes it too. which was how i was with my big sister when i was little.
but the other kids he's talked to, all say they don't like ponies. both boys and girls. and now he's too scared to take his pinkie pie stuffed animal to show and tell because they'd make fun of him for it. i told him to take her and start a new trend, and he told me they all say bad things about the show and the toys.

are ponies becoming unwanted?
 
I have the same issue. My little brother and sister are both into it, mainly FiM, with my brother owning only a Bubblecup and a G4 Fluttershy, and my sister owning only G4 Rarity, and my brother tells me the kids at school keep making fun of him because of it. And his father (they're my half-siblings) calls him a f****t. I mean...what the heck? That's just WRONG.

I think it's fantastic my siblings are interested in it. Why would you call your own son something intended to be degrading like that? I mean, I'm gay, but when you insinuate it with THAT WORD...that's just...wrong. It is.

My sister hasn't told me of any issues with it, though. It's socially acceptable for her, huh...
 
I think it's young girls are getting out of toys in general now a days. My fiance and I got to car boots together in summer, and the number of young girls we see selling all their toys. And a couple times when I've been selling stuff, I've had had parents of girls who couldn't have been more than 7-8, 'Do you want any of these ponies?' and the little girl has gone 'No Mum, I'm not a baby'.
 
I think ponies are more popular with ages 11-30 now than they are with younger kids(as in brony phenomena)... all the times I've gone to Walmart to get ponies I have only seen a couple little kids getting ponies. I've seen a LOT of older kids/teens/adults looking at them, though.
 
HeavyHooves said:
I think it's young girls are getting out of toys in general now a days. My fiance and I got to car boots together in summer, and the number of young girls we see selling all their toys. And a couple times when I've been selling stuff, I've had had parents of girls who couldn't have been more than 7-8, 'Do you want any of these ponies?' and the little girl has gone 'No Mum, I'm not a baby'.
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I agree! Kids are trying to grow up WAY to fast! I buy them for my baby girl and my youngest son likes to play with them too! I love watching them play together with their ponies! I always tell my oldest son and my nephews (who are in school) "That if you like something, then that's all that matters! Don't worry about what anyone else thinks about it" Kids were giving him a hard time because he still likes Mario games...he is in the 4th grade! I'm 30 and I love Mario games!!
 
I don't see why you should be considered strange in the first place. everyone likes something different as a genral rule. However when i went toy shopping for our angel tree there were very few kids in the toy isle.
 
I am 15 and I have adored ponies for most of my life, as i said before my big brother showed me the old g1 movie and it was love at first sight for me. I was maybe 7 then, and i have collected ever since. I was home schooled at the time, then when i was 12 i went to this private school, and a girl in my class named Madeline also liked my little pony, i found out because she gave out MLP valentines cards at the class valentines party that had G3 Pinkie Pie on them. We became fast friends, but i haven't seen her in a while because i now go to school online, and i didn't have a phone at the time and neither did she, so our friendship fizzled out. :( But I think of her often, even though my mom accidently tossed out the pinkie pie card.
 
Why can't kids just be kids?! ='( I wish I could just take youth from the ones that want to grow up so fast. They want to be adults? Fine, let them have all the worry and stress that comes with it. I'll take the hours of carefree playtime! =P And the ponies they don't want!
 
I think it goes with the quote "you can be young only once but immature forever." I think kids grow up too fast too. I hope my kid will want to be a kid a little longer. I feel sorry for children who get picked on for liking anything thats not apart of the "norm." :/
 
Children can be cruel. It's a sad fact of life.

The only thing that most people can do to reassure thier bullied children that they are normal for liking different things then what their classmates like.
 
my friend text me before christmas asking me where to buy ponies because he got a 4 year old girl who loves ponies for his angel off the angel tree :)

and the lady at target commented on getting her daughter some cause she loved horses and breyer's, and said she was 6, so I think it's just hit or miss :)
 
The girlie is four and a half, and loves ponies! Nothing thrills her more than spotting a G3 or G4 when we're out thrift store shopping - she gets as excited as I do when I spot a G1. LOL But, of course, it probably doesn't hurt having a pony luvin' momma. ;) But she's in a hurry to grow up too. "Next I'll be five, then I'll be a grown up." However she also assures me that she'll still be my baby even when she's an adult. :)
 
Nobody needs to know how old I am and I looooooooove ponies. I am probably the oldest person on this forum lol.
 
I think it's because young girls are being encouraged by their parents and the media to act and look older than they really are. I mean, heck, look who some of these girls consider to be their, "role models" *glares at the entire, "cast", of The Jersey Shore*.

Kids aren't being allowed to be KIDS anymore, they're expected to be little adults. They ENCOURAGED to be little adults. And asking many kids today to actually use their imaginations to play instead of relying on a computer or a video game or the cell phones? Outside of artists, writers, and collectors, I don't see it much anymore. And it greatly saddens me.

It doesn't help any that peer pressure is STILL strongly prominent in running how kids act and think. So if the, "cool kids", say that playing with ponies is for babies, then too many kids who love ponies feel they have to hide their love or stop loving them all together simply because they want to be accepted by the, "cool kids".

My ponies and plushies got me through a LOT of seriously hard times with my family growing up, I don't know that I would be the same happy collector and artist that I am today if I had allowed my classmates to change my way of thinking to fit their image. There are things more important in life than worrying about whether or not ones classmates or coworkers are going to think you're cool or not because of what you collect and love.

Sorry I went on a rant like that. It's topics like this that just get my goat when I hear about people teasing and making fun of others because of what they like or do. My protective older sister switch gets flipped on. ^^;;;;
 
beechan2 said:
I think it's because young girls are being encouraged by their parents and the media to act and look older than they really are. I mean, heck, look who some of these girls consider to be their, "role models" *glares at the entire, "cast", of The Jersey Shore*.

Kids aren't being allowed to be KIDS anymore, they're expected to be little adults. They ENCOURAGED to be little adults. And asking many kids today to actually use their imaginations to play instead of relying on a computer or a video game or the cell phones? Outside of artists, writers, and collectors, I don't see it much anymore. And it greatly saddens me.

It doesn't help any that peer pressure is STILL strongly prominent in running how kids act and think. So if the, "cool kids", say that playing with ponies is for babies, then too many kids who love ponies feel they have to hide their love or stop loving them all together simply because they want to be accepted by the, "cool kids".
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i saw in the christmas gift set isle at walmart a "make your own halter top" design kit for kids.
 
Beechan,
Sadly my niece fell for this and quite playing with toys by the time she was 7. Really sad for her. She missed out on her entire childhood over another child saying she was a baby to like dolls.
 
Varkolak said:
i saw in the christmas gift set isle at walmart a "make your own halter top" design kit for kids.
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That is just wrong on SO many levels.

That companies ENDORSE little kids dressing in some VERY adult clothing... they do anything just to make a buck. ~~;;

tulagirl said:
Beechan,
Sadly my niece fell for this and quite playing with toys by the time she was 7. Really sad for her. She missed out on her entire childhood over another child saying she was a baby to like dolls.
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Tulagirl, have you thought about maybe bringing her to a pony meet, the My Little Pony Collectors Convention, or BroNYCon? It could really help her to see that it's TOTALLY okay to love and collect My Little Pony if she's surrounded by fellow collectors and fans. Kind of like a HUGE support group! ^__^
 
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and I played with dolls till I was 13.... my barbie may have been dressed a little risque but dangit I played with her and my lps till then :)

clearly I couldn't grow up cause here I am 13 years later, still buying toys for myself :p
 
It's kind of that way for me and my kids, too. My daughter is 14 and my son turns 10 tomorrow. She doesn't actively collect MLP anymore but she also won't let me have the ones she has or wants to get rid of them. She has recently started collecting sock monekys, Snoopy, Muppet stuff, and rubber ducks. All things considered to be childish collections by certain people. Her friends think it's cool and even have gotten her some things to add to her collections.

My son loves to play with Littest Pet Shop and has been made fun of by a friend of his for it. He's told that he watches baby shows on tv (Clifford, Arthur, Bob the Builder) and while I find it perfectly okay for him to watch these shows, he refuses to do so when he has company over. (We only get PBS for cartoons)

I hate for them to cave to peer pressure and want them to be individuals, not part of the pack.

I have part of my MLP collection on a shelf that you see immediately upon entering my bedroom and I've had a friend raise an eyebrow at it, but she never said anything... to me anyway. LOL

Children need to be children for as long as they can be. Why does society want them to grow up so fast? It doesn't help that certain toys (Barbies, Bratz) have become more geared to growing up sooner rather than later.
 
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