To wonder when children's age cards became so stereotyped

Not when you go in through the door and just see a display of pink because you are female. I wasn't suggesting a car or dinosaur for Mother's Day but there are yellow, blue, orange etc flowers!
I can't see why by the age of 3 yrs dinosaurs are for boys!

I can't see the problem really. I very rarely buy age cards, although I do tend to buy named cards (granddaughter,mum,grandma, sister etc) occasionally for the children, I buy those little sticky numbers that you stick into the card.

Mothers days cards surely can't be described as being stereotypical as after all mothers are exclusively female (aren't they??????) therefore nothing wrong with pastel colours such as pink. I personally wouldn't want a Mother's Day, birthday card etc. with a car or a dinosaur on the front (despite feeling like one sometimes).

I haven't- but I had to go to 6 shops to do it!
People obviously buy them otherwise the majority of Mother's Day cards wouldn't have turned pink!

There's an easy solution to the problem: stop buying stereotyped cards.

I often get them online, but I needed these in a hurry.
I generally end up with a blank card and put my own message -but with children up to about the age of six, who are just learning about age and numbers, I like to get a big, clear number on the front.
I think it was the fact that I needed 2 similar cards, one for a boy and one for a girl that I got such a shock to find that most shops couldn't supply similar cards- they had to be blue or pink.

I buy cards online, you can upload your own photos and write your own message and they work out at about half the price of shop ones. I add names and ages and something personal to the recipient.

I very rarely buy age cards or even specifically birthday cards, precisely because there are so many stereotypes around. I buy blank cards and write my own message. I agree that stereotyping of boys and girls has got worse, not better, since my children were small. It even goes down to things like gloves for 1-year olds. When my DD tried to buy gloves for DGD, she was asked whether they were for a boy or a girl. She said, "a child"!

I went looking for an 18th birthday card for my grandson today, every time I saw one that looked promising, and had a lovely verse, ended up, as Leticia says, joking about getting as drunk as could be on his birthday, not nice.

That was one that annoyed me- dinosaurs and birthday boy on the inside.

And when were only boys interested in dinosaurs?

Having grown up in the days when dolls were for girls and train sets for boys, I have just woken up to the fact that it is now far,far worse!
I can't remember when I last wanted an age card but I'm sure that last time I was buying them- about 20yrs ago- there were ones that said 'boy' or 'girl' but the majority were suitable for both. Girls now appear to have to have pink! ( Mothers also = pink).

I did think that the girl and boy cards were going through a stage. But the stage seems to have become permanent. I dont know why.
I could say well that is because people must choose to but them, but if there is no choice, we have to!

That reminds me- a past irritation was the fact it was difficult to get a funny 18 yr old or 21st Birthday card without the joke being to get drunk to passing out stage.

My grandson is 13 next week. I went to find a card for him, and all the 13 year old ones were for girls.

Fortunately I've got one with an owl on, which I can give to him in the hope that he will become as wise as the owl in his teens.