To buy 3 year old DD dinosaurs for Christmas?

Twenty plus years ago, I bought my son a shopping trolley and a huge toy kitchen. He loved it.

Buy your DD the Dinosaurs. Your friend is ridiculous.

You are unreasonable if you buy them rather than coming round to mine and going home with several hundred of the bloody things 😂 both my DC are into dinosaurs and are a DS and a DD, I personally hate the whole girls toys/boys toys crap, if a child enjoys playing with something then they enjoy it and that's the only thing that should influence you in your purchasing (or helping to clear my house a bit!)

Buy the dinosaurs, bin the friend.

My palaeontologist friends this dress

https://www.popsyclothing.co.uk/products/cora-multicoloured-dinosaur-print-dress?variant=33032610283655&currency=GBP&cmpid=20493304734&adggid=&kwd=&device=m&gadsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAADKK-rVTfz4zqZhAgboQs8cBgVFqy&gclid=CjwKCAjw0t63BhAUEiwA5xP54Ud8q4UiD1FvekeZBlY22iXW0j-HHmRvcNAyssBBS4nhek1BJhkCRoCBQwQAvDBwE

Her first year students all smiled on the first day!

Why are dinosaurs for boys? I personally know two palaeontologists and both are female!

What’s odd is your friend with these outdated gender stereotypes

You're friend is a bit odd, and outdated

Make her an ex friend before she damages your DDs mental health with her sexist BS.

Btw my DD likes super heroes more than dinosaurs. (And bikes. ) A neighbours' DD loves dinosaurs and can tell you loads about them.

Absolutely fine to get her dinosaurs! My nearly three year old dgs is getting a pram and a dolly to play with at my house when I look after him because he loves playing with his food trolley as a pram. Such an outdated opinion

Think your friend needs to update her views from the 1950’s!! My daughter loves anything to do with the fire service and fire engines, but also loves pink and glitter. Absolutely doesn’t matter what they are into, they like what they like!! Buy the dinos I say!

The worry is that children hear this shit spouted by adults.

As it happens, I grew up in the 50s and in many ways, things were less gendered. There wasn’t the money for new and separate toys for girls and boys. We all played with bricks, zoo animals, farm animals, cars, Lego.

My brother wore my hand me downs, and we all wore striped t shirts and plain coloured shorts. Not pink.

Obviously there were very serious legal barriers to equal opportunities but children were children and girls not expected to take part in ‘girly days’ etc. There wasn’t a huge ‘girly’ marketing machine, because there wasn’t the money.

Toys are just toys to kids, I’ve seen plenty of boys pushing little pushchairs with dolls in and girls with plastic tool workshops and toy cars. How on earth could an animal (reptile/bird/whatever dinosaurs are) be gendered?

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Of course she can have dinosaurs! Your friend is just sexist, and very limited in her thinking.

When my DD was 2/3 she absolutely loved Thomas the Tank Engine. She's 4 now and in to princess but also bugs and Pokémon. Your friend is being ridiculous x

As I have said to my (older) kids, unless you are operating an item with your genitals, it is neither “for boys” or “for girls”.

Mary Anning who has been mentioned a few times now

Self taught herself about biology and physiology and stuff to understand better what she found

Both my children had whatever they needed for toys.

My son loved cerise pink and at 2,3 and 4 chose pink and princess dress up.

My daughter loved the colour green and dragons.

They both had and still have fluffy toy cows and guinea pigs.

We certainly were not the norm. Toys are genderless. Just get them what they need.

By 'you' I mean your friend obviously

@haroldwilson 💯😂

Buy her all the dinosaurs!

I have life long interest in Ancient Roman History (including a degree in Classics) triggered by learning about Pompeii at the age of 5 and thinking the plaster casts of bodies were actual petrified corpses - I was obsessed and fascinated by them (I was so disappointed when I found out the truth 🤣)

My parents responded by buying me Roman History books and taking me to archaological sites (the Roman loos at Vindolanda were a particular highlight).

41 years later I am still to be found on most holidays clambering up mountain sides or round half forgotten, overgrown sites with a guide book looking for Roman and Greek ruins.

Encourage your daughter's interests.

It’s adults that seem to drive toy segregation through fear of their child being singled out, sort of parental pier pressure, so hopefully parents like yourself will forge on and buy their kids what they want. What are people worried about, a girl playing with toy cars might grow up to, I don’t know, to drive a car! A boy playing with a doll might grow up to be, ummm a father! I really hope this is changing from when I was a kid in the 1980s, we were made to feel embarrassed if we touched toys that weren’t apparently meant for us, and it was all adult driven. Hope your daughter has fun with her Dinosaur friends.

It's so frustrating this carries on and on. My daughter wanted dinosaur pants and dinosaur wellies. I had to buy them in the boys department of Next. At the till the sales assistant told me there are really nice girls wellies over there. I replied that flower wellies don't "raaah" and my daughter wanted the dinosaurs so she could "raaah and stomp". I was looked at like a loon. This was ten years ago. And it never changes