As a mother of five boys and grandmother of four (soon to be five) girls, I can tell you that whatever you try to do, there IS a difference! The girls WILL want B**bie, not cars and guns! (Although youngest son had a Cabbage Patch doll and proudly pushed 'her' through the streets in the dolls pram bought for him by his eldest brother! We did get some 'looks', but youngest son is Edmund - you remember him? ;-) - so the looks never bothered him!)
In my experience girls will play happily with dolls OR cars and guns, but at the end of the day, they want their dollies, and the boys generally want the guns and cars, whatever you do :-(
And I've come across many people (including daughters in law) who are quite prepared to put their girls in blue, whatever the comments, but would baulk at dressing a boy in pink!
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Date: 2005-11-29 07:04 pm (UTC)In my experience girls will play happily with dolls OR cars and guns, but at the end of the day, they want their dollies, and the boys generally want the guns and cars, whatever you do :-(
And I've come across many people (including daughters in law) who are quite prepared to put their girls in blue, whatever the comments, but would baulk at dressing a boy in pink!
Elaine