To buy 3 year old DD dinosaurs for Christmas?

Haha @CestLaVie123 - are you me?! 😂

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...

My 2.5 yo granddaughter is obsessed with dinosaurs, has her favourite on any given day (it changes) but it is absolutely not odd! What a weird thing for your friend to say 🤔 a lot of kids, both boys and girls love dinosaurs! You can get dino clothes in pink and blue (if you have a preference 🤷🏼‍♀️)

No, it is definitely not better that pink ones are available. There are just dinosaurs - not "dinosaurs" and "girl's dinosaurs".

My 4 year old girl loves dinosaurs. She loves Frozen, and unicorns, and sparkles, and princesses too. She also has a large toy fire engine and a petrol station. This whole boy toy girl toy stuff is nonsense.

My 8 month old daughter loves dinosaurs! Ok she doesn’t know what they are but we have some wooden dinosaurs and she loves them!

OP it’s not odd! You’re buying your daughter something she likes for Christmas that’s definitely not odd.

Not RTFT so I'm sure it's been said before - but your friend is the dinosaur, OP. Can't believe anyone holds such sexist views in this day and age. Please stand up for your DD and set your friend straight.

I'm old fashioned and I do think that some things are more for boys or more for girls but dinosaurs are perfectly fine for either.

So have you told your friend that she was being ridiculous then? That you’d appreciate it if she didn’t call your daughter or her behaviour ‘odd’, even under the pretence of joking? Because if not, no, you’re not advocating for her IMO, and if your friend is one who would have contact with her in future, you’re risking her coming out with a hurtful comment before you can stop her.

I’ve just been reading a thread about new generation parents being gender neutral and how ‘ boomers’ don’t approve. I can see my objection was justified, since we encouraged mixing up the toys, whatever the children wanted. Just as when we were children, I played with cars, my brother dolls and we both played train sets and scalextric and dressed in mothers dresses and high heels.
When did dinosaurs become ‘boy’ toys anyway? I’d have thought if anything could be neutral, they would be. Of course your DD should have dinosaurs if she likes them . I bought an electronic T.Rex that works through an app as well as simply pushing buttons for a 2 year old, who could recognise and name over 100 dinosaurs . It’s educational. Your friend is odd for thinking it’s funny etc.

At this point I'm just reading the thread updates to get a warm fuzzy glow from repetition of the word 'dinosaur'...

My two DDs are dinosaur mad. We have a huge tub of them and they are played with multiple times a week. DD1 got a remote control dinosaur a couple of Christmases ago that is her pride and joy and get shown to every visitor!

I got this a few years back for my Dino mad daughter, two years later it still gets played with, and she always checks the babies are there.
my daughter has always loved dinos and it’s better now that pink ones are more available, she’s a girlie girl who loves pink but loves a dino too!

Some great dinosaur books too. Dinosaur Roar was great. Even Peppa Pig & Dinosaurs!

Such a strange comment from friend… My sister and I grew up in the Seventies, and had train sets, cars and Scalextric alongside our Sindy dolls and Tiny Tears… we enjoyed playing with all of them!

100% agree with this post. I can’t believe this is something you would need to ask.

My 5 year old SD was obsessed with dinosaurs and went through a phase where she demanded to be referred to as Diplodocus. We used to call her Dip for short.

That's dreadful. As a Nursery Teacher I once had to correct a Child Care student's Formal Observation that boys in the Home Corner were playing at being Mums. I told her they were most likely being Dads. Although if they were plating at being Mums that would have been OK too.

I feel sorry for your friend’s son. He is going to have a skewed upbringing. He may even have difficulty finding a life partner as most potential partners, either male or female, will be looking for someone with more egalitarian ideals.

I can't believe people think it odd that a little girl likes dinosaurs!

Your friend is seriously weird.

Your friend so weird!
my nearly 2 year old daughter loves dinosaurs. I’ve bought her “boys” pyjamas so she can have dinosaurs on them. Strange how she thinks animals are gender specific! 🤔

Mine had gorgeous alphabet dinosaurs t-shirt from the Natural History Museum at that age. And a hand puppet dinosaur etc. Dinosaurs had genders. Playing with them doesn't!

Your friend is bonkers

HTH

one of my daughter’s nursery teachers commented that she was really into ‘boys things’ because she liked dinosaurs and robots 🙄