Should we stop encouraging it?

My niece is the same - she loves anything with wheels! I cant see it really being a problem... Just because she is a girl doesnt mean she has to play with dolls.

I think this other person is a closet sexist! There is nothing wrong with being a child, and playing child's games. She will establish her own sexual identity as she gets older.

Livvy's into trucks, planes, helicopter, etc and doesn't really play with dolls. Her toy of the moment is a transformers car and I can't see the harm in it. It's just what takes her fancy at the moment.

Agree with what everyone else has said so far.

Guess it may have just been an offhand remark but I think it's stink that there are still people out there who really think that there should be boy's toys and boys games and girls toys and girls games. Bugs me when I see toys labelled as girls and boys toys. Even clothes are still so different for the different sexes when they really don't need to be. At that age it doesn't matter but shops still seem to be making it into a huge issue.....

if she is happy does it really matter? sounds like the person who said something about it has a problem not your DD (who is a gorgeous GIRL btw!)

Rowan loves cars too. Let her play with whatever toy she wants.

Also it may improve her driving later in life. Apparently boys do better at cornering etc. in cars because they've practiced so much with toy ones.

lol my boys like playing with dolls prams and sylvanian family toys so we have 2 dolls prams dont see why they cant play with certain toys just becoz of there gender

Agreed, let her play with what she wants to play with. As long as she is engaging in imaginative play, that's what matters.

I had to smile though, as I thought to myself "I wonder if the question was the other way (eg my boy will only play with dolls and pink stuff) if all the opinions would be the same". It should be, and I think at OhBaby it probably would be... but I bet you'd get more people commenting on, and discouraging, boys playing with girls toys than the other way around these days!

On that topic, Jackson has spent the weekend trying to put my bras on. He keeps wandering off to the bedroom, retrieving one, and putting his arms through the straps. And if he has two, one goes on his head. All very cute until I start finding bras at the front door!!

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She's not "supposed" to be a girl, she IS a girl. Being into dolls doesn't define her as a girl.

I'm a girl and I've never been into dolls, always been about cars for me. I've especially always had a fascination for trucks, and wanted to be a truck driver at one stage too!!

my2angels wrote: I think its cos she is around so many boys and Im hoping will grow out of it

Why do you hope she will grow out of it?

Just curious

I'm not sure why people need girls to be in dresses and skirts and play with dolls to be girls and if they do otherwise - hope that it's just a phase and that they will grow out of it. Vice versa for boys.

My thinking is that of course when they grow up they will be different (body-wise, not brain function ) but the more "equal" boys and girls can be when they are younger, the more equal they will be when they are older. As it is, young girls and boys get it drummed into them from an early age (if not by their parents, then by society in general) that girls should do this and boys should do that.

It leads to things like, for example: Physics and math being branded as a "boys" subjects and history and english being branded as a "girls" subjects. So, of course with "society" saying that physics and math is a boys subject, less girls will take physics and math - not because they are not as capable at doing physics and math but because they have been guided this way. And this leads to people saying that girls are not as good at maths or physics because less girls take these subjects. And the cycle goes around and around.

The whole equality of the sexes thing is getting better but I still think we can do more to help it along

Gosh, don't know if that makes any sense and I know that this thread probably wasn't meant to be that serious but oh well.

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