Does anyone's son have a doll?
Oscar's just fallen in love with a little boy doll from elc and I've bought it for his birthday. Just wondered what the general feeling is on here about boys and dolls. I feel no one bats an eye if girls play with boys toys but there's still something taboo about boys playing with girls toys
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I personally think its quite sad how society today has changed. Personally I believe its the adutls that make a big deal of things whereas the children are happy to play with whatever. At the end of the day they are larning through play or imaginative play whether its a car or a doll.
If more people in society didnt get embarassed about seeing theres or other childrens boys playing with dolls, or made a segregation between boys toys and girls toys. There would be less judging and critising in this world today.
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We also bought him a toy pushchair as well, as one of his friends had one, and he used to love it! I must admit that oh refused to buy him a pink one though! We found a nice blue and yellow one.
Quite often my 2 boys would make a bee-line for the girls toys at other people's houses - because of the novelty I suppose! Now I've got a little girl too, and I love buying girly pink toys!
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He also loves playing with the buggies at playgroup and friends houses, i did think about buying him a blue buggy....I dont think there is anything wrong with playing with dolls as most little boys will grow up to be daddies so they get to do their pretend/practice things just like little mummies do haha xx
He did love playing with the dolls at toddlers and with my youngest sisters doll and pushchair but this was the toy he ran over to in elc out of all the others so I took it as a sign! Lol.
I do think that dolls can teach our lo's lots of things and that there aren't really any readily available 'socially acceptable' alternative for boys until they're old enough for action man.
Oh well, he loves it and that's all that matters to me!
he loves to push a pram to.
I bought him the talking Iggle Piggle and mum and dad gave it to him at the same time as the Upsy Daisy, and he really isn't that interested in Iggle! Poor Iggle.
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[Modified by: Rhian2 on October 27, 2009 11:57 AM]
he's 4 and a half now and although i wouldn't say he plays with it a lot he is very fond of him and my youngest now plays with him. I bought my youngest a pushchair. it is pink but thats only because the toy shop only had one and traditional girls toys do seem to be pink! my husband was more opposed to it been pink than it been a pushchair but i think thats cos he doesn't like pink rather than him not wanting his son to have pink things if you see what i mean. my son pushes the pushchair round town sometimes and although he gets a couple of funny looks most people don't bat an eyelid!
both my sons like cars and wheels and trucks and tractors but they also like dolls, pushchairs and pretend kitchens and cookery and i'm happy with that. I should imagine they'll grow out of it with peer pressure from school from other boys saying its girly but I think thats quite sad and a shame.
No problem with them having a doll at all, its just like us having another baby, and I wish my OH would've let me get Ollie one before Mj was born...
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