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To buy 3 year old DD dinosaurs for Christmas?

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dinosaurgirll · 28/09/2024 09:39

My little girl (3) loves dinosaurs at the moment, every time I pick her up from nursery they say she's loved playing with the little toy dinosaur set and doing all the noises etc.

We are making a start on buying her Christmas presents this month and I mentioned to a friend I was thinking about getting her some toy dinosaurs as she doesn't have any at home. Friend commented that it was "funny" and "a bit odd" to buy them for a girl. And "bet it's like having a boy". I mean, she also has some Elsa dolls in her Christmas present pile, so it's a mixture of girly and less girly type presents!

Is my DD "odd" for liking dinosaurs at 3 years old?! 🤔

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Ethylred · 30/09/2024 07:30

Yes get her the dinosaurs! And cars and cranes and other boy toys. (Odd for a girl, ffs. Jane Austen was a great novelist but we are no longer living in her era.)

Ukrainebaby23 · 30/09/2024 07:23

Op do you watch Dinosaur Train? My little Ioves it, he is a boy but it's not gender specific

Ukrainebaby23 · 30/09/2024 07:22

Bamboozledbylife · 28/09/2024 09:43

Your friend is ridiculous! Seen some v cute dinosaur bedding in asda recently 😊

Yes the pattern is lovely, material a bit thin but OK vfm.

VerbenaGirl · 30/09/2024 06:00

Not odd in the slightest. Your friend is outdated!

sashh · 30/09/2024 04:35

My niece was really in to dinosaurs at that age.

She might grow up to be a palaeontologist.

If I were in your position she would get a set of dinosaurs, a dino onesie, books, stickers etc etc.

Havinganamechange · 30/09/2024 04:31

Your friend is the weird one, why wouldn’t you buy your DD dinosaurs if that’s what she likes?!?!

OneLoyalGreyFish · 30/09/2024 02:02

My granddaughter is 6 in a few days, she’s having a dinosaur themed party as she’s loved dinosaurs since she first went to preschool. She puts me to shame as she can name (and now read) all of the dinosaurs in her 100 Dinosaurs book! She wants to study them when she grows up she says - it begins with P but it’s too late for me to bother looking it up haha

Glittercloud17 · 30/09/2024 01:50

Purrrlease. You still questioning ‘boys toys and girls toys’? It’s 2024. Get your child whatever they enjoy and tell your friend to upgrade their brain 🧠

CaptainMyCaptain · 30/09/2024 01:40

six666 · 29/09/2024 22:38

I was born in 1950 and I don't recall anyone thinking that girls were odd for liking dinosaurs in the 1950's......

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I was born in the 1950s too. My sister and I had dinosaurs, cars, trains, Lego and Meccano. Things seem to have got worse not better.

Upupandaway10 · 30/09/2024 01:03

It's fine

Mamai100 · 30/09/2024 00:51

My almost 3 year old DD loves dinosaurs, batman, spidey and PJ masks. She's no interest in 'girly stuff' and if anyone calls her a princess she says she's not a princess she's a zombie!

Mmhmmn · 30/09/2024 00:49

Your friend is a moron. She wants your dd on Barbies and dolls only I expect? 🙄 Get the dinos and stop listening to that friend. Ugh

AliAtHome · 30/09/2024 00:47

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 28/09/2024 09:44

Has your friend time travelled here from the 1950s?

My thoughts exactly - but try 1850. Has your friend even heard of the famous 19th century palaeontologist Mary Anning?

Please continue to support and nurture your child’s interests without judgement. Gender stereotypes are so damaging and limiting. I’m afraid even if a ‘joke’ I wouldn’t have left this unchallenged.

FWIW my son played with Barbies, had toy kitchens etc and I encourage my DGD’s interest in trains as much as that in unicorns - and love that she insists on wearing purple tutu dresses (albeit over leggings) while playing in the mud, climbing and generally exploring the outdoors 🤣

Figment1982 · 30/09/2024 00:29

dinosaurgirll · 28/09/2024 18:17

Just thought I'd share a pic of DD's new bedding! She's absolutely delighted and can't wait to go to bed now - bonus 😂

That's funny, I read your OP and wanted to respond to point you in the direction of some brilliant dinosaur bedding from Dunelm that my DD has.. and I see you've found it yourself!

ChristmasIsComing2024 · 30/09/2024 00:22

Why would it be odd? I’m getting my 3 year old boy a Pets Alive Mama Duck Surprise which is targeted at girls as he loves ducks and I’m probably going to get him a doll pram as well as he always goes to them in charity shops!!

goodluckbinbin · 30/09/2024 00:15

Are we STILL dealing with this bullcrap?! 40 years after my parents bought me ‘boys’ toys??? Spoiler - I turned out fine. Got a PHD and everything…

Get the child dinosaurs. Get her dinosaurs and a skateboard and a football and a baby doll and some fingerprints and a scooter and a tutu and puzzles, games, books, a toy sword, a doll house…
Whatever fires her imagination and moves her body.
And IGNORE any comment about that she should and should not do, play with, enjoy…

BogRollBOGOF · 30/09/2024 00:04

50% of dinosaurs were female.
Why would dinosaurs be an unsuitable interest to 50% of human children?

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 29/09/2024 23:49

six666 · 29/09/2024 22:38

I was born in 1950 and I don't recall anyone thinking that girls were odd for liking dinosaurs in the 1950's......

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Apologies to the 1950s then!

5foot5 · 29/09/2024 23:38

I was born in the early 1960s and apparently I used to tell people that I wasn't born, I was hatched from a dinosaur egg at the North Pole. I remained obsessed with dinosaurs for years.

Nobody at the time seemed to think this was odd for a girl as I recall.

How sad and strange that 60 years on this should be the case. Your friend is very strange.

LarryUnderwood · 29/09/2024 23:15

I had a train set when I was little and I LOVED it, also wore a boilernsuit for most of my 10th year. It was so much easier in the 80s and 90s to be child who just played with stuff and wore clothes they liked without these pink and blue boxes everyone seems to conform to now.

LarryUnderwood · 29/09/2024 23:13

Your friend is daft and wants her head read.

TheFormidableMrsC · 29/09/2024 22:59

I bought my 3 year old a train set because that is what she wanted. She's 26 now and still remembers it as her favourite ever gift. Buy the dinosaurs!

89redballoons · 29/09/2024 22:50

I have boys aged 2 and 4. My youngest has a much-cherished baby doll with a little buggy he pushes it around in, and my older one's most prized possession is a bright pink balance bike, which he loves because pink is his favourite colour.

To buy 3 year old DD dinosaurs for Christmas?
LastNight1Dreamt1WentToManderleyAgain · 29/09/2024 22:43

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 29/09/2024 21:53

I bet I'll be echoing many posters when I say that your friend is the dinosaur.

I really can't believe women are still buying into this shit in 2024, like all the pioneering women involved in STEM have passed them by. Mary Anning, for a start...

Your friend is the dinosaur
The dinosaur is your friend

six666 · 29/09/2024 22:38

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 28/09/2024 09:44

Has your friend time travelled here from the 1950s?

I was born in 1950 and I don't recall anyone thinking that girls were odd for liking dinosaurs in the 1950's......