[Liadan]

My daughter loves to play with my nephews trucks, and my nephews love to play with her dolls. (my younger sisters two boys)

My OLDER sister has a boy and a girl, her daughter old ever had "girly toys", dolls, etc. and her boy has "boy toys", he is discouraged from playing with "girl toys"...

[Pooks*potters]

Obviously playing with dolls will make your son a gay, which by definition means he won't be able to live in bob katters electorate as he swears there are no gays there and real men in big hats don't lie. Playing with dolls will make him weak and soft and prone to being picked on by the other boys who've had such impulses carefully smacked out of them and feel its only fair he should suffer similarly. But worst of all, playing with dolls would make him like a girl and we all know they are pretty repulsive unless they're doing your housework or being sexually available, and even then.

[Jenflea]

Pookems, that made me laugh.

[CocobeanLillylov...]

Obviously playing with dolls will make your son a gay, which by definition means he won't be able to live in bob katters electorate as he swears there are no gays there and real men in big hats don't lie. Playing with dolls will make him weak and soft and prone to being picked on by the other boys who've had such impulses carefully smacked out of them and feel its only fair he should suffer similarly. But worst of all, playing with dolls would make him like a girl and we all know they are pretty repulsive unless they're doing your housework or being sexually available, and even then.

humourous but also so sad because it is actually true that people think this way

[Hausfrau]

I posted a thread on here about trying to find Angelina Ballerina PJs for a boy about a year ago and it turned out that lots of 4 and 5 year old boys loved her.

I have been told a few times that DS might be gay because he likes a dancing mouse. He did tell me he likes he legs so I'm pretty sure he isn't gay. I may have problems in the future though if he develops a thing for lady mice.

It sh*ts me when people focus on the boys liking dolls, dress ups, cooking and dancing. Both boys also love trains, dinosaurs, guns, trucks and army tanks but people seem to ignore those just so that can call them gay.

No one seems to care that my girls love trucks, trains, cars and wrestling.

[Lightning_bug]

My son is 5 and has his own 'baby' which he sleeps with. Has done since I was pregnant with his little sister. In fact, he designs clothes for his baby (his style is questionable though).

At one stage with DS, DSD and DD We had 4 babies sleeping in the loungeroom. And DH and I were ushered out and told to be quite because they were sleeping. LOL.

DD loves playing cars with DS all the time. Her first word was "vrooooom".

OP, just make them available and don't 'choose' for them. Kids will pick up and play with what they want and then disregard the rest.

This post has been edited by Lightning_bug: 05/05/2012, 11:38 PM

[trishalishous]

can girls play with cars?

theres your answer op

[suziej]

True story - my brother not onlly played dolls when a child (there is a gorgeous photo of him pushing the pram with dolly in it) BUT was dressed in dresses, given make up and jewellery and we pretended he was our little sister.

This brother is now a ex-football playing, wood-chopping father of four - and he thinks it great his 6 year old son still has the best collection of handbags of all of his kids.

And while some of his mates may have issues with it, it generally only takes a look from my brother for them to go back into their dark corners.

[Thestral]

Definitely don't pack them away! Boys like playing with dolls and girls like playing with cars. It's great that you baby will have a variety of different toys available to them rather than just 'gender specific' toys geared to their sex. I teach 5 year olds and often boys come to their first year of school and love playing with the dolls/barbies in the classroom because they didn't have the opportunity to at home!

[MahnaMahna]

1. My son plays with dolls, barbies, nail polish and many other "girl" toys.

2. My daughter plays with cars, trucks, ben 10 toys and many other "boys" toys.

Why is it that many people can only see an issue with point number 1?

Don't put them away OP, let your son enjoy being a child before society forces him into fitting a stereotype.

(PS: My brother used to wear my dresses, play with my dolls and play with Mums makeup. He is now almost 30 and is the most stereotypical male I have ever met, however he is very comfortable within himself and his choices, perhaps because Mum never made him feel that how he acted as a child was "wrong" for a boy)