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THIS WEEKS TOPICGender Specific Toys? Yay or Nay?What do YOU say? MY OPINION?Maybe. Not Sure. I’m not sure.
I really do not have a strong opinion on this topic and I also do not think there is anything wrong either way, regardless of what you believe.
I probably would not purposely push a ‘girl toy’ on a boy, but if he wanted a doll I would probably let him have it. My girls always played with trucks and cars which you would normally categorize as ‘boy toys’. Gracie has 2 huge Tonka trucks and she loves them! I don’t see a problem with this at all. I know that little boys love walking around the house in Mommy’s high heels and I don’t see an issue with that either. We have a play vacuum and my daycare boy love playing with it. Again, I do not see any issue with it.
Speaking of my daycare boy… he is going to be 3 years old next month and he knows that blue and green are boy colors and pink is a girls color. His mom showed me, if you ask him if he like pink, he says ‘nooo… pink is for girls!’. I kinda think it’s cute. I don’t really think it’s doing any harm teaching him that.
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What do you think about Gender Specific Toys?
Yay or Nay… What do YOU say?
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We don't do the whole "gender specific" thing. My boys all have dolls, there is a doll sling floating around, a cradle, and some doll cloth diapers too but they mostly default to boyish toys on their own and that's ok too.
ReplyDeleteWe also don't do blue is for boys and pink is for girls (especially since originally it was the other way around...) because colors are colors. My son often wears a brown shirt with pink stripes to school and he doesn't care because pink is just another great color.
I think enforcing that one color is for a certain gender makes it harder for kids to understand/accept boys that like pink or girls that like blue.
Now that my son is 5 and half he doesn't play with dolls, but when he was younger he did. One year he even wanted the new baby alive for Christmas. He's had lots of "Girl" toys, kitchen sets with dishes and food (Why do people think that's just for girls?) and Dolls and strollers. We still have most of the stuff. He just doesn't use it unless his girl cousin is over. Then he plays with her.
ReplyDeleteAt about age 4 he started telling us that pink was for girls. We never taught him that. He must have picked it up on TV or preschool. So he will not wear pink.
What a great idea! My son is always playing with his big sisters toys and I have no problem that he would rather have the purple balloons than the blue. He just wants what his sister has :)
ReplyDeleteI have daughters, and I honestly don't mind them playing with "boy" toys if they wanted to. When we were kids my boy cousin loved coming over to play barbies! lol. If I had a son I probably wouldn't buy him girl type toys, but if he were somewhere that had them and he wanted to play with them, I wouldn't mind.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with having both gender specific and a general selection. Shoot, they usually end up playing with the boxes.
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