Beige clothes, beige room, beige baby – great parents?

For years, one topic has dominated discussions with parents in the playgrounds of German cities: whining about “Paw Patrol” and “Frozen”. Two extremely successful cartoon animation merchandising worlds that children absolutely love and from which you can buy all imaginable products for the home: glittery capes, huge blue-red-yellow plastic garages for the dogs’ companions, ice castles made of Lego, paw Patrol Wall Decals. The academic couples from the old buildings around the playgrounds agree: ugly, junk, ugh. Her offspring only wear light mud colors, the Montessori wooden bed in the children’s room has gray and white blankets and pillows, the carpet is made of hand-knotted wool in earth tones, the supposedly particularly high-quality “wool-silk” has become a dictum.