The difference between girls and boys.
Noah: “Mummy, Thomas runs on coal. He loads and shunts”.
Ivy: “Yes, and he has a shiny blue colour on his engine and some pretty red bits too”.
Noah (sneering in his sister’s general direction): “No, Ivy, that’s not the exciting part. Thomas, he runs on coal!”
It seems gender biased vehicle selection criteria starts early when you have boy – girl twins in the house.
Gorgeous! But, knowing how your toys multiply themselves in your house, when are there going to be baby trains?xox
Ha to what Fe just said!
I am often amazed by how kids play into gender stereotypes. Since he was very young, Max has always been fascinated by cars, trucks, buses, anything that goes. Sabrina has been fascinated by dolls and princesses. I have not encouraged either of them, these are preferences that spontaneously cropped up.
I don’t mind Max’s fascination with vehicles, but the princess thing drives me nuts.
I love it.
I can’t comment on the boy stuff – I know nothing about that! But I do know my girls would be the same as Ivy – it’s all about the pretty colours.
Seems they’re beginning to go their separate boy/girl ways now.
Frogs, snails and puppy dogs’ tails = “COAL!!!”
Sugar, Spice and everything nice = “Pretty Colors”
And that, I believe, is an expression of the natural order of things.
Lovely.
That is so true. I have three boys who spend 24/7 with their mother but it is all about trucks, trains and more power! We parents have to admit that are powerless in the face of gender bias.
Come on Ivy, get with it.
Being coal fuelled beats shiny ANY day…
Everything around here is either cool (boy) or pretty (girl).
LOL! Oh, the look of utter scorn I have seen on the 3-year-old countenance when a Disney princess figurine attempts to have a conversation with a tank engine… I soooooooo get this!
HAHAHA! That is priceless.
I’ve been making a mental list lately of the differences between the girly and the boy. It’s amazing these little humans ever grow up to WANT to hang out with the opposite sex.
Brilliant! My two are the same. I tried so hard to not gender stereotype them but they just did it themselves. I may have to rethink my nature/nurture beliefs.