To buy 3 year old DD dinosaurs for Christmas?

OP

I saw these and thought of you

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I got my daughter a personalised t shirt that said, girls like dinosaurs too, and there was a picture of a brachiosaurus and the personalisation was her name xxxxsaurus

Get the dinosaurs

@dinosaurgirll I have been unable to PM you on the app but I've got a fantastic Dino pillowcase with a head and tail that turned up yesterday when I was clearing out some bed linen. My son is out of his Dino phase now but I'd be delighted to send it to you if you'd be OK with PM'ing me your address. I won't be at all offended if you'd rather not 🙂

It was a week or so after lockdown so everything was arranged quickly. The shoes were irregular choice and a real work of art.

No, it's definitely not. It's my experience of the area and the people over the last 10 years.

It's just my experience since having my child. I think it is definitely a general thinking in our area. It's not my thinking, thats why i notice it. I was born in 71 and it wasn't my experience as a child either. I think as others have said gendered toys have become more prevelant over the last 20 years or so.
Our primary school until the last 3 or 4 years was still handing our princess activity sticker books to girls and animal books to boys. They are improving but slowly.

Unless you operate a toy with your genitals, it doesn’t matter

@Awumminnscotland I think your views are quite unusual I was born in the 1950s and that's not my experience.

I know kids in different countries and there is something about dinosaurs that they all seem to love so much. I remember studying dinosaurs at school (so a bit older than your DD) and, honestly, that is just about the only thing I remember from primary school (except a few science lessons and how to do long division).

@Awumminnscotland That's just your extended family and friends.

Mine think it is normal to get cars, robots, super hero stuff, whatever for any child in the family as long as they will play with it. ( This is one reason why I do the job I do.)

my dd had dinosaur toys and books at that age and impressed the preschool assistants with her ability to correct their pronunciation of the more complicated ones! Both boys and girls can l like dinosaurs and I would tell "friend" to stop insinuating your child is odd for liking them!

Ask yourself...

Do you need a penis to play with it?

If no then it's a great toy for any child
If yes then it's not a toy suitable for a child.

I actually think it's odd that so many posters are so aghast at your friend's comments.
Of course it's sexist,narrow-minded, and ridiculously damaging to think like that but in my experience many people do think like that. They know they're 'not meant to' but it's hardwired into, I'd say most people's thinking to a certain extent.
My 9 yr old dd loves cars, always has and everyone knows it. She loves all the stereotypical girl stuff too but cars are her first and enduring love.
One uncle is the only person to have bought her cars. Now that she's older and into more recognisable girl stuff aunties and granny are delighted to buy her those things but have never bought cars. Even friend's/ friend's parents are all aware of her car collection but none have added to it. I do think people feel odd for some reason gifting a girl a stereotypical boy thing. You only need to look on the what to give for Xmas lists on mn to see the stereotypes of girls things are only on the girls lists and vice versa for boys.
Just this summer a woman was telling a story about the school bag her younger daughter had chosen was blue and had sharks on it, she was shaking her head going, 'trust her'. When I genuinely was perplexed as to the issue she says, well it's very boyish.
I think people think it's fine in theory for children to like and play with any toy but over the years in people's houses and living rooms I see very little evidence of this in practice.

Just tell her Bryony Page is a gold medal winning female olympian who also has a degree in dinosaurs.

hmmmmmm. because all the dinosaurs being female worked out SO WELL for John Hammond :P

DD5 loves dinosaurs! So do most of her friends. She even has a t shirt saying 'Girls like dinosaurs too'!

If there are no dinosaurs then what will the Barbie’s ride? Or battle? Or be eaten by?

that sounds AMAZING!

exactly. not outdated. the idea that dinosaurs are for boys seems to only be a thing in about the last ten years. before then, dinosaurs were always considered a unisex interest.

not at all odd. dinosaurs were never considered gendered when I was growing up (born 1980) it was just a normal thing that pretty much all children loved. nobody then would EVER have said there was anything unusual about girls liking dinosaurs.
I've always loved them. I was able to say some complex dinosaur names before I was a year old, and was obsessed with them. in my 40s now, and I still love dinosaurs. even have a dinosaur tattoo, and my husband gets me the jurassic park supercollosal dinosaur figures most christmases.

I think the fact that in more recent years, people have been trying to make out dinosaurs are "for boys" is a weird step backwards, when loving dinosaurs was never gendered before. in fact, many of the major early fossil discoveries were made by women.

Toys like dinosaurs are popular with young children because they can grasp them easily. giraffes have long necks for holding in small fingers too. One hand will do.
Never, ever associate any sort of toy as for a girl or boy. They should all have the chance to play with all toys, even dolls. Action Man was very popular because if fired imagination, and that is exactly what toys are supposed to do.

Not outdated, plain wrong. I had lots of dinos and Dino books, and an Action Man, and toy cars, as a child in the 70s

Oh, and my youngest's 3rd birthday cake(from the 10 little dinosaurs book). So definitely not alone!

Both my Dd's were the same, especially my oldest. Her first week at nursery (when she has just turned 1), her key worker came out excitedly telling me she had just said 'dinosaur'. She has always loved dinosaurs. By year 1 at school she had decided she wanted to be a Paleontologist when she grows up. She is now in year 4 and still saying the same. Mary Anning is one of her idols (her and Greta Thunberg). I think it's great for girls to have such good female roll models.

When your daughter is a little older there are some great books on Mary Anning aimed at children. For now I would strongly recommend the book '10 little dinosaurs'. Both my girls loved it when they were little, especially joining in the big roar at the end. Also look on CBeebies for the Nick Cope Popcast - dinosaurs, they loved this (that and the babies done a poo were firm favourites).

As for your friend, does she have children? If she does, I hope she isn't spouting such nonsense to them. My oldest came home upset a couple of times when she was younger as another child had told her 'dinosaurs are for boys'. I told her that as the first Paleontologist was a woman, it clearly wasn't true!

Toys are unisex