Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Why Girls and Boys Play Differently

As parents, we do our best to open the different possibilities for our children. We stock our baby’s shelves with all kinds of toys, from baby dolls to tractors and everything in between (read: gender neutral). So why is it that our little princess always reaches for the dressed-up dollies, and our young firefighter pulls […]

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HERS; Why Boys Don’t Play With Dolls

It’s the millennium and boys still like trucks and girls still like dolls. We are told that the source of these robust preferences must lie outside society — in prenatal hormonal influences, brain chemistry, genes — and that feminism has reached its natural limits. What else could possibly explain the love of preschool girls for […]

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Where Are the American Boy Dolls?

An 8-year-old boy asked his mother: “Where are the American Boy dolls?” while they were at the sprawling American Girl Place store in Chicago, that mecca for big and little girls. They had just finished walking through the historical dolls gallery, after first looking at the dizzying array of dolls that could be made to […]

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Monday, October 26, 2015

Why Don’t Boys Play With Dolls?

In a Youtube video series titled “Ask Cristen”; host Cristen talks about dolls and boys, as requested by one of her commenters. During this series, the discussion was foused about the general effects of dolls toward children of both gender. Commonly, it has been a tradition that dolls are for girls and trucks are for […]

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A New Line of Dolls with Disabilities

A British toy company, Makies, is known for being vibrant and diverse Infact, the company is known for allowing kids to customise printed dolls to their preferences. Thanks to the toy company, children can now make dolls in all different shapes, sizes, skin colours, and hair types. Makies is not stopping there. Now they have […]

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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Why One Dad Encourages His Sons To Play With Dolls

Enter a toy store, and what do you see? Toy products are often separated by gender — “pink stuff” and dolls are classified as “girl toys” and boys are directed to play with action figures and trucks. But that doesn’t mean that parents should insist and strictly let their children follow what is dictated by […]

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Saturday, October 24, 2015

12-Year-Old Female Football Star Sam Gordon On Why Girls Should Play Sports

Since 9-year-old, Sam Gordon, a Football phenom, has been in the spotlight after her dad posted a highlight reel of her out-of-this world football skills. The video (and plenty of others) quickly went viral because she’s not only the smallest player on the field — she’s the only girl. Three years later, with the nickname […]

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Friday, October 23, 2015

Why I’m Letting My Girl Be a Girl

Let boys be boys and girls be girls. Although we, parents, have no control over these things in the long run, and our children be themselves (whoever that is). No matter what we do to keep our daughters from wanting to play princess and wear pink and purple all the time, it’s not going to […]

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Let Him Play With Dolls

Rebecca Cohen was spending time with her sister and her family, when something quite disturbing to her anti-sexist sensibilities occurred. It started when her 4-year-old niece began playing with the princess costume trunk she’d just received for her birthday. She was eager to show it off. As she entertained the whole family by parading around […]

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Darth Vader is for Girls, Too: The Young Fan Who Forced Disney to Change Toy Labels

Izzy Cornthwaite, Star Wars fan, wanted a Darth Vader costume and lightsaber for her eighth birthday. Upon exploring the UK Disney Store’s website with her mum, Rebecca, she was devastated to see that the outfit was listed as a “boys’ costume”. “Her face fell,” says Rebecca. Her eyes “filled with tears and she said ‘I […]

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Are We Still Talking About Whether Boys Should Play with Dolls?

Author Brian Gesko recalls that during his childhood, his constant companion was Babydoll Baby. She had red lips and big eyes embroidered on a plush face, and little brown knots sewn into her head for hair. For years, Babydoll Baby was his best friend. Gesko thought fondly about Babydoll Baby on Monday, when the Facebook […]

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God Made Boys to Play with Dolls

A Sesame Street episode in which “Baby Bear” is told it’s OK for boys to play with dolls has received Owen Strachan’s rant. Strachan is the executive director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and although his views on “biblical” gender roles are understandable, it may be different for other people’s perspectives; and […]

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Forget Toy Trucks and Cars! Young Boys Prefer Playing with DOLLS, Claims Study

According to a study, baby boys may prefer to play with a Barbies over a Tonka truck. The research at the University of Western Sydney suggests this is because boys prefer objects with faces over machines. In the study, four and five month-year-old babies were shown pictures of male and female humans and dolls, as […]

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Why Kids Should Play With Baby Dolls (YES, Even Boys!)

Baby dolls are fantastic to have during the toddler years,both for boys and girls, because they are full of potential for teaching children about themselves and the world around them. They offer kids with a lot of opportunities to learn and develop their cognitive, fine motor, and self-help skills that are the building blocks for […]

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A Boy Wants A Doll: What Would You Do?

What happens when a child decides to cross the gender boundaries? Society has known about gender stereotypes ever since- blue is for boys and pink is for girls. A scenario was set up at Meyer’s Toys in Livingston, New Jersey, and send in actors to see what the people would say when our father struggles […]

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Monday, October 19, 2015

What My Twins Taught Me About Gender Stereotypes

A fraternal twins were brought up with so little discrepancies that it came to a shock when somewhere around their first birthday, the baby girl started favoring around the toy chest’s lone baby doll tending to its manifolds needs as much as her rudimentary coordination would allow and at the same time the boy twin […]

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Why It’s Not Sexist To Say Boys Should Never Play With Dolls

Nowadays, shops have increasingly been under pressure into making toys ‘gender neutral.’ But why can’t we let girls just be girls and boy just be boys? It would take real courage from anyone these days to fight against political correctness of our time and at the same time follow your very own nature. It appears […]

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

You Can Give A Boy A Doll, But You Can’t Make Him Play With It

Swedish regulatory group says that it is discriminatory for toy catalogs to show girls playing with tea sets and boys with Nerf guns. Reklamombudsmannen (RO) reprimanded Top-Toy, a license of Toys ”R” Us, for its “outdated” advertisements and has pressured it to mend its “narrow minded” ways of thinking. Thus, Top Toy introduced gender neutrality […]

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Should Toys Be More Gender-Neutral?

Upon walking inside a toy store, you can see the evident usage of manufacturers for more and more gender messaging to sell their toys. The toys are specifically designed and marketed for boys and girls- without much overlap. Whether it be through color coding or design. It is clear that toy marketing reinforces gender stereotypes. […]

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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Opening boy doll Trevor Samuel

My very special customer, Catherine, posted this video of herself opening her My Pal of My School when he arrived at her home in Quebec, Canada. It is so rewarding to see something I created bringing so much happiness to someone so far away. Thank you, Catherine, for making this video!

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Waldorf Wednesday is Back! Or why Boys need dolls!

Ulla Seckler is a German immigrant who lives in Colorado with her family and makes beautiful handmade dolls to sell on the internet. While at the playground with her kids, she met a young mother with her four-year-old son and found out the woman’s dilemma about wanting to give her son the dollhouse he wanted […]

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Barbie for boys? The gendered tyranny of the toy store

A lot of campaigns like ‘No Gender December’ (a campaign that encourages people, especially parents, to consider what kinds of toys they ought to buy in the lead-up to Christmas) and ‘Let Toys Be Toys’ strongly suggest that the gender stereotyping of toys restrict the creativity and development of children. Many parents disagree with this, […]

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Monday, October 12, 2015

The case for gender-neutral toy marketing

Back in August, Target announced it was phasing out gender-based signs in some departments. And the giant retailer certainly made good on that promise right away despite the many criticisms it has received. Its stores all over the country have already removed references to “boys” and ”girls” in toy, home, and entertainment aisles. Toys are […]

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Is Brainy Barbie Really Any Better?

Barbie dolls are being modified to have slightly thicker thighs. And it’s not because they want to realistically represent the women of today, but to accommodate a rechargeable battery into each leg to power the concealed microphone that will make Barbie speak. Yes, it’s the new talking Hello Barbie. The new doll was on the […]

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Friday, October 9, 2015

It’s OK That My Son Plays With Dolls

Katie Marcum is one mom who won’t tolerate letting other people tell her or her son that they are doing things wrong. She believes in letting a child express their freedom and choices– and that includes wearing pink, playing with dolls, or having nail polish on their toes. She agrees wholeheartedly with what she overheard […]

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Girls, Boys, and Toys

With Black Friday fast approaching and the holidays right around the corner, most parents’ thoughts usually turn to shopping for their loved ones especially their kids. But despite toys becoming increasingly more elaborate and expensive today, the gender binary in children’s toys has remained constant. For birthdays or Christmas presents, girls get Barbie dolls, baby […]

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Why I want my son, and all boys, to play with dolls

Peter Morris, senior adviser at the National Congress of American Indians, believes in letting his eldest (a four-year-old boy) play with dolls and wants the world to know it. This is his reaction to an incident in Washington, D.C where they we verbally accosted by another mum who thought it was “so gay” to see […]

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Should Boys Play with Dolls? Black Friday Find and Grab

One parent recounts how stumbling upon a pair of Zibits selling for dirt cheap at a favorite discount store led to an afternoon of pretend play when the kids basically turned the robots into remote-controlled dolls. They played popular children’s games like Hide-and-Seek and Tag, but also dug into their imagination to invent games such […]

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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Gender-Specific Toys: Daughters Should Be Playing With Lego, Not Dolls

UK Education minister Elizabeth Truss, speaking in a magazine interview, said that she doesn’t believe girls should be ‘pushed into fashion over farming’ and that parents should encourage and not force any interests on their child. She further says that parents should let their daughters play with gender-neutral toys like Lego to enhance their chances […]

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Dad who praised his son for playing with a mermaid doll takes the four-year-old and his beloved toy off-roading to prove ‘how fierce a dolly can be’

Mikki Willis of Ojai, California is a father who became a global internet sensation because of a video he posted back in August showing his support for his son’s choice of a toy –specifically, an Ariel doll from The Little Mermaid collection. It all started when his four-year-old son Azai received two of the same […]

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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

You can’t like flowers, you’re a boy!

Even in this age of advanced technology and supposedly progressive ideologies, there are still people who like to impose and instill in the children’s minds gender stereotypes that are old-fashioned to say the least. Ultimately, these children are forced into their “gender roles”- and and that is exactly a path that we need to steer […]

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Why do we still care if boys play with dolls?

Kids constantly face a kind of pressure to fall in with established gender norms which are both strong and pervasive in our society. And nowhere is this more evident than with their toys and clothing. Each parent’s take on the matter is different from one person to the next. A lot continue to say they […]

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Monday, October 5, 2015

Ways to Nurture Early Childhood Development

Infancy and preschool years are the most crucial time in a child’s life. It’s the time when they are developing new motor, cognitive, language, and social skills. That’s why it’s important to have the nursery and the playroom incorporate within them some elements that promote early childhood development. Toys should not only provide fun but […]

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9 autism facts the presidential candidates (and you) need to know

The misguided and unfounded idea that vaccines cause autism was opened up again during the final 15 minutes of the second Republican presidential debate. The entire exchange, although brief, was uninformed and helped perpetuate misinformed beliefs that directly and negatively affect the autism community at large. CNN’s Jake Tapper, who moderated the said debate, posed […]

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Friday, October 2, 2015

When boys play with dolls

Society is obsessed with labeling what is masculine and what is feminine. This obsession could lead to problems about gender roles especially for children who are deprived of their self expression at an earlier age. A boy playing with toys perceived to be for the opposite sex does not necessarily mean he is less masculine, […]

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Research shows that the type of toys matters when it comes to how parents speak

Jennifer Zosh and her colleagues wanted to find out how the kinds of toys parents and their children play with impact their interaction with each other. Their study used a traditional, non-electronic shape sorter and an electronic shape sorter toy to compare the differences between each parent-child pair who participated in the experiment. The shape […]

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