to buy the wooden ikea train stuff for a little girl?

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Cuz she's a girl and it's trains?? I think it's fine but other people have said not.

P.s child is a baby- not able to express an opinion!

A handy flow chart...

On dear lord. What is wrong with people! Go get those trains!!

My nieces mum only dresses her in pink, her bedroom is pink and she only has typically 'female' toys. Here she has a bag of toys - made up of dolls, toy animals, cars, trains, a tea set and lots of pretend food. She plays with them all and often asks to take the cars home however I know they would end up in the bin! Love seeing her play with a variety of toys and believe that all kids should play with whatever 'toys' they want. My son had a toy buggy when he was 3 much to his dad's horror and he has grown up into a computer playing typical teenager!

Mango biscuit love that!

If you do and in years to come she catches a train on her own don't come crying on mumsnet.

Don't be ridiculous. That will never happen. Girls catching a train, whatever next...

I didn't realise wooden trains were supposed to be for boys.

YABU. Ikea train stuff is shit. Buy her brio or big jigs instead.

Buy her the train. DD had a Brio train set, an extensive range of toy cars and a work bench. She also had Barbies, a toy kitchen and the Playmobil dolls house. She has managed to grow up without being gender confused.

People who think there are girl's toys and boys toys give me the rage .

Damn Mango beat me to it

Watch your step OP or when she's 18 she'll be registering to vote!

A bit embarrassing to admit, but we bought this girly (shock!) train set for DD2 for her birthday. She loved it. Loved that it was 'prettier' than the set that our friend's boys had. Then we supplemented it with a load of the standard stuff.

Have you been talking to my MIL? She was horrified I bought DS1 a Doc McStuffins toy because "it's for girls". I told her in the end that the 1930's had rang and they'd like her back.

My DD loves it. Great for imagination.

Yanbu. The ikea stuff doesn't connect as well with other versions. Tesco, Bigjigs and Brio all work together nicely.

My niece adored this stuff when she was 3 and 4. It made present buying extremely easy.

My 2.5 year old DD LOVES her wooden train. She has recently started making "platforms" for the train out of her blocks, and tells us what the parts of the train are as she puts it together. Pretty sure she knew what the boiler was before I did.

So buy the train. Trains rock.

My DS (3) has Lego, wooden train sets, and cars. You know, typical 'boy' stuff. He also has a wooden kitchen with a tea set and food stuff, toy vacuum and necklaces and rings that he likes to put on

He's happy, I'm happy.

I've only got girls and we've not only got train sets but a hot wheels garage complete with loads of cars, and a tool workstation thing. I don't see them as boys toys/girls toys-just toys lol

Some of the replies on here are just brilliant. Thank you all :-)

The ikea one fits really well with the sainsbury one if that's any use. My dd and ds play with ours fairly regularly. I'd class a train set as a can't go wrong type of present for a pre-schooler.

Buy her whatever you like and get friends with more imagination.

Of course YANBU, OP. As if you even have to ask!!

Your friends / family (whoever it was) who made those comments seriously need educating...I suggest you point them in the direction of the great "let toys be toys" campaign - here!

Wooden train track is brilliant, all makes fit together and you can get battery trains that mean older - 1 have a video on my phone of DD2 aged 10, DCs can enjoy really complicated layouts even when they get to big to sit inside them.

My 5 year old DD adores her train set. DS, aged 7, for whom the set was bought originally, has never taken any notice of it. But I agree with the posters who say Brio is better than Ikea.