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Playing Princesses

Feb 22

Written by: babymakes2
22/02/2011 8:20 PM  

I don’t want to limit my children to what they ‘should’ be interested in and am starting to get concerned about all things girly now my daughter is nearly 4. She is into necklaces and my makeup which is great, I secretly want her to find her prince charming when she grows up and give me beautiful grandkids. But what I don’t want is for her to feel that that is all she can be interested in. I want her to enjoy ‘boys toys’ and ‘boys activities’ like climbing trees and playing with trucks.

I took her to see the Princess Stories stage show recently and encouraged her to dressup in her snow white outfit. We watched snowwhite, cinderella and beauty and the beast. We loved it but later I worried what kind of example those princesses are setting. Then I remembered she does love dinosaurs and her train set too.

The same goes for my little boy. He has already received gender specific toys for Christmas. He’s 10 months old! What kind of message are we sending our kids? That said I don’t want him to grow up and be an overly sensitive wimp. But I don’t want him to be blockhead either.

I grew up in what used to be ‘the sticks’ and was lucky to have a large backyard where I could climb trees, make cubbyhouses with my cousins and had a favourite rock to sit on when I wanted to get out of the house. I remember loving my remote controlled car and a mecanno set. But I also loved Snow White (and still do) and had a clothes line for washing my dollies clothes.

Hopefully as they get older I can continue to encourage them to enjoy toys of the opposite sex and grow up to be mindful, open minded and self confident no matter if they are boy or a girl and not feel like they can’t do something because they are a boy or a girl.

Maybe early learning at playgroup will help :) I will let Sean play with the dollies and Neve play with the dinosaurs.

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Re: Playing Princesses

Playgroups are opportunities for all children to explore their interests in activities. It is the adults who impose their ideas of a boy-oriented or girl-oriented game or condition children to judge one way or the other. As you choose to love and appreciate your child regardless of her choices, then she is invited to feel comfortable with herself regardless of her interests.

By Liara Covert on   8/03/2011 12:11 PM

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