Is it weird that I want to buy my son a buggy?

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For him to push his toys in? He loves pushing his own buggy so I'm thinking of buying him one for Christmas! My husband seems to think it is strange as it is only for girls! I don't have a problem with it though?

It's a child's toy

Your son is a child

Buy your child the child's toy

Let him play with it, because he is a child, and it is a child's toy

HTH

Ds still sometimes pushes the toy buggy around, and he’s 5. Dads are out pushing buggies all the time. It’s a great gift. Ignore your dh, he’s way out of line here.

Your DH is BU. The sooner children learn that it's ok to play with any toys the sooner you are showing them that gender stereotypes are both limiting and unhelpful in the real world.

My DD and her male cousin played with dolls prams and buggies for hours on end when they were little. Mostly as a useful wheelbarrow for moving toys (and pets) around the house and often as go karts to hurl each other down the hallway in. It's a useful and versatile toy!

We got our eldest son a buggy when we were expecting his little brother - he loved putting his cars into it and zooming up and down the garden.

Nothing wrong with it. Or you could get him a wheelbarrow

this is much more versatile
www.melissaanddoug.com/shopping-cart-toy---metal-grocery-wagon/4071.html
sorry for the ca link but it's readily available anywhere.

I bought my DS a buggy for Christmas when he was 2, because he loved playing with the toy buggies at toddler group. My dad was a bit 'but he's BOY...' until I pointed out that he might well grow up and have kids of his own and push a pram...

Such a sweet thread, cheered me up :) My b/g twins also used to play with the same toys when they were little and both loved pushing buggies around. They also shared dress up clothes, the sparklier the better.

Unless you'll drip feed that he's 15... whyever wouldn't you???

They sell "blue" buggies fgs

Even the gender stereotyping shopping aisle manages to do a blue buggy

Your husband is being bonkers worrying he'll catch the gay from something that he does himself and has managed to remain straight somehow despite it

I have boy/girl twins. They had a buggy each. Two fire engines, two ride on cars, two cuddly horses. My friend's DH was like yours, she bought one, wrapped it up and put it under tree. Friend said it was from a woman at a playgroup that she had helped out - so he couldn't really complain. Her little boy loved it as did mine.

I take it your husband never pushes any of his children in a buggy?

Then as he clearly does he's being a CF. Your son just wants to copy his parents particularly his dad who is his first male role model.

No not at all!

My son loved pushing around his cousins pink pushchair with a plastic dolly in it

Myself nor DH were bothered in the slightest, he was having fun & we got some great photos

And don't forget to buy him a tea set as well! DS loved it and he and his friends used to play with it for hours.
He also had a farmhouse (dolls house) with furniture and figures.

My son had one- had to get rid of it though as he would run around with it quite violently

Ex child minder.
Had loads of boys over the years who would take 'babies' out in (pink as that's all there was then) buggies and take care of them. I had potties, beds, 'baby' clothes and boys all played with them.

Tell your dp boys need to learn how to care for babies to make good fathers.😀 the eejit And shock horror, girls played with cars and trucks and footballs too!

They all also all 'helped' look after real babies. Getting nappies and wipes etc, holding toys for them or holding onto the buggy and 'helping push'.

P.s. he is a blinkered fool if he thinks toys are specifically for boys or girls.

I think it is a great idea if he wants one, it sounds as though he'd enjoy it and could put stuff in for carting around. I doubt he'll still be using it at though why not? The days of gender stereotyping toys are gone.

My mum bought my son a teaset when he about three and he loved it.
I also bought my friend's little boy a toy upright vacuum cleaner from Argos when he was little because he always used to get my vacuum cleaner out to play with when he came around. He was so delighted.

When boys and girls play together they play with eachother's toys so if he has a little girlfriend she can put a dolly in his pushchair and they can walk it around the garden.

I'm quite delighted you are considering it. Nothing 'unmanly' about wanting a pushchair. I wouldn't buy him a very expensive one though.

When I was small, parents bought me a very elaborate (Marmet I think), dolls pram and I hated it. Once I was out shopping with my mum, she had put some of her shopping in it and I let go of it with no brake on. It flew out into a main road and upturned! I was severely told off for that but I used to walk around in a world of my own and just didn't think, it wasn't deliberate - and I was only about four. However I was old enough to be acutely embarrassed by the pram.

No, dollies and dolls prams were not my thing but I'm still definitely a woman, never had doubts about that.

My dad always told us stories about how he played with his younger sisters' dolls as a young boy but he grew up to be a footballer.

Seriously get him a dyson hoover too

My 2 year old ds has a doll and pram. This Christmas he is getting a feeding set and a cradle, and we can't wait to see his delighted face.
He takes good care of his baby and thoroughly enjoys playing daddy so it's perfectly normal behaviour for a toddler.
I have however had the ' you're making him gay' comment from df but it's nonsence. Simply put are girls only parents, no, so why can't boys pretend to take care of a baby too

This has got to be a joke! I genuinely thought you meant an actual full-size buggy at first because I couldn’t understand why you’d be asking if it was unreasonable! Surely you’ve seen boys pushing dolls in buggies before? It’s really common where we live.

Not wierd at all. dS has had one since his second birthday. He loved pushing his toys around or running at speed with it. Seriously if your dh pushes your ds why can’t your ds push a toy?

Did your husband not push his child in his pram then? Buy the boy a pram tell your husband he’s being daft and refer him to my first question.

My boys had a buggy, a baby doll and sling, a lovely wooden toy cooker and plastic/metal pots/pans/tea set, heck, they even had a wooden toy broom. Not aware there was anything remarkable about any of that, tbh. I agree with the pp who wonder why so many men get twitchy about this (and whether it's connected to a reluctance to see male beings as able to take an equal part in childcare and household tasks)

Oh, and now, as a teen and preteen, they are competent cooks and love to play with their toddler sister, help her get dressed, etc. :)

Thanks for your input everyone! I have ordered one :)