By: Jennifer Gove | ![]() |
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I remember when my daughter was born. Visions of her and I dressed in pinks and purples sitting in her lacy pink room playing dolls danced threw my head. A year later my son was born ;My husbands vision of sports and trucks revved around like mad men threw his manly mind. Those dreams were simply that dreams. Little did I know there are lessons for parents to learn about children’s toys and who are children will be. My daughter plays with dolls. She plays with clay and gets her hands dirty. She plays in the dirt, climbs trees and races her trucks around .,he plays kick ball , base ball and can run as fast as any boy. My son plays with trucks and builds with blocks, he colors and plays ps2 and he plays house with my girls rocking babies and feeding them. There was a time my husband would bark to my son “Put down that doll!" until we came to the realization that play is really a child’s preparation for real life. My message to parents is not to limit their child. Toys and sports are learning tools for life and they shouldn’t carry a gender. By the way…my daughter and I play but its not dolls….many days you can find us all at the beach…covered in muddy sand driving our big Tonka’s™ . © 2004-2005 Jennifer Gove
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