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How Come Boys Get All The Cool Toys?
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How Come Boys Get All The Cool Toys? |
12/03/08
Also, did anyone have that creepy crawlers oven thing!? SOOO cool.
12/03/08
There were 4 colors of "goo" that you heated up in a cauldron-thing, and a bunch of molds of preety odd little demons, imps, monsters, and ferocious animals. You poured the goo into the mold, and voila - you got cool little toys that YOU made!!
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12/02/08
I on the otherhand wanted it all - the 'boy's' toys and the 'girl's' toys and looking back on it, it was pretty clear which was which. My favorite gifts were probably the most gender-nuetral: a national geographic globe and a set of children's encyclopedias.
12/02/08
Also, Disney's encyclopedia taught me at a very young age about the huge-ass wasps that hunt tarantulas and inject their eggs inside it, using it as a fleshy nest! Both creepy and awesome.
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My parents gave me the best gifts as a kid: a microscope, kits to make my own slides of insect parts, a rock tumbler, a telescope, a bird watching book with binoculars, various insect habitats for all of the creatures I caught outside, etc. They took me to Cape Canaveral for my 16th birthday. I'm so glad they let me be the dork that I was, gender rules be damned. :)
12/02/08
In general, though, I think girls get more leeway in this respect. I was allowed to play with my Barbies, MicroMachines, Fun-With-Food, Legos and Construx(sp?) when I was little. I had a rock tumbler and a crystal growing kit and a sewing machine at various points. (In retrospect, I sound rather spoiled, but you have to understand that the aforementioned father makes children's toys for a living and the hitherto unmentioned mother suffered a nearly-toyless childhood.) But my brothers ONLY got to play with the boy stuff. How lame is that?
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I am not, however, into Cromwell. He was a douchebag.
12/02/08
Dividing toys into sections is not a big deal. There's not an invisible barrier preventing anyone from crossing over and buying whatever they want for whatever child they want.
My son likes to pretend cook. If he asks for a toy kitchen, I'd have to get it from the girls section. Should I be upset that my son is being "told" he can't be a successful chef when he grows up?
Gosh people. Next thing you know we'll want to rid sections all together. Heaven forbid the person who plays Scrabble on their kitchen table is offended that board games aren't in the dining room section.
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Would you have a problem if toy departments were separated into a "white kids" section, "latin@ kids" section, and so on and so forth?
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I also feel like we were encouraged to really use our imaginations more than I think kids are these days, which is sad. The best toy, in my opinion, is a box of crayons and a pack of paper.
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[www.pinkthink.com]
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I did get a mcdonalds hamburger maker (it involved cereal?)
But I wanted an easy bake oven so badly.
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(not implying you can't, just... in general.)