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Are the color pink and all its implications bad for girls?
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Heidi
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Feb 09, 2011 09:39AM
I tended to prefer gender neutral activities. I didn't like to exclude the boys.
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Bun's gonna win the TC contest. I told y'all. Don't say I didn't call it.
Well, I'm hoping she means that if a girl wants to play princess that's totally acceptable. And that it is the majority, for whatever reasons - but that's what we're talking about. I was all over the place with the toys I played with. I loved my Barbie (singular!) but played in the dirt and all sorts of boy stuff because of my brother. I don't recall legos - but when I ended up having a boy, I sure did love playing with his toys. :D
Hahaha! Well then, Bun, you are really a boy. :D
It sounds like we were all lucky enough to have parents who did not force us to conform to the expected behavior or to deviate from it. There's nothing wrong with anyone who does meet those stereotypes, just as there is nothing wrong with those who shatter them. My niece is as princessy as princessy 4 year olds get, but nobody is making her be that way, or encouraging her to be other than what she is. She just knows she was born to rule.
Mine didn't! My brother was urged to be either a doc or lawyer. Me? A nurse.And then they kept buying me stuffed animals! When I was 12 they bought me this humongous one which I hated. By the time I was 7 I no longer wanted dolls or girly toys, but that's what they kept buying me. My brother got all the cool toys. I coveted his baseball bat.
Sorry, Lori. I read the post about Barbie and dirt and legos and assumed it was parent-sanctioned.
I liked to play on the monkey bars and ride my bike and read books, and play with Legos. I liked jigsaw puzzles, and Shrinky Dinks.I played with Barbies with the other girls who played Barbies, and I played with Breyer horses with the girls who played with those.
And I liked to hula hoop. :)
Every girl is different. My nieces love to dress up and play princess, and they love to go outside and do cartwheels in the grass. Tiffany has decided she now prefers purple to pink. :)
I loved to climb the trees in the yard and get on top of our house.
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "I liked to play on the monkey bars and ride my bike and read books,"The monkey bars! I loved the monkey bars! And yes, still love biking.
It cuts both ways too. There was just a story about a little boy who wanted, oh what was it, to wear or do something considered "girly" and oh the outcry was horrible! Hateful stuff said to the parents because they LET him. Obviously they are the opposite, great parents to let their kid be.
How many children under the age of 3 pick out their own clothes? It is usually parents who pick out their clothes. I believe in sex neuter clothing until kids are old enough to make their own clothing choices. When buying toys for my niece I picked up musical instruments (my sister still has not forgiven me for the drum), pails & shovels, a dump truck: she liked pouring sand in and pouring it out. When she requested "girl" things, then that is what I bought her. I bought my son action figures and GI Joe stuff over my spouse's objections (no son of his will play with "dolls"). I am not a believer in gender stereotypes or forcing children into those stereotypes automatically because it is "traditional". Give your daughter legos,erector sets, etch a sketch as well as dolls, toy kitchens.
