To buy 3 year old DD dinosaurs for Christmas?

[dinosaurgirll]

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?! 🤔

OMG No!
Don't buy her dinosaurs, she might end up being a scientist, paleontologist or vet.
Poor child.
Get her something mind numbingly boring instead.

My daughter was obsessed with dinosaurs when she was little. So much so that when her teachers did the home visit before she started reception that she was telling them all about dinosaurs, how pterodactyls sound like their name starts with a t but actually it starts with a p and she wanted to be a palaeontologist.

She's 25 now and doesn't seem to have experienced any trauma or gender dysphoria from liking dinosaurs

Your friend is weird.

She must be trans..... NOT 🙄

Just buy her the dinos

It’s odd you even feel you need to ask.

I'ma woman in my 40s and love dinosaurs! Always have! Jurassic park is my favourite film. I own toy model dinosaurs. I wear t shirts and dresses with dinosaurs on (not pink t shirts specifically designed "for girls"). I play jurassic park games on my phone and computer. Who wouldn't like dinosaurs?? They're cool! 😁

I was obsessed with space as a young child, I loved learning about the planets, and everything. I only saw men going in space, and thought that it was a "boy thing". My favorite pyjamas now, are space themed, and blue!😁

Dress DD in this the next time you see your friend!

Ask that of Mary Anning

No friend of mine would be stupid enough to say this to me. Just reply “Your sexism
is showing!”

Parent of two dinosaur mad little girls here. They’re 6 and 4 and have been obsessed for years. Have never had a single remark like this from anyone!

Look up Nary Anning. Also, dinosaurs are awesome! I’ve learned so much about them since my child got into them and it’s fascinating. In a couple of years get them the DK dinosaur encyclopaedia. Amazing pictures. Or maybe I shouldn’t be enjoying it because I’m a woman 😉
https://www.waterstones.com/book/knowledge-encyclopedia-dinosaur/dk//9780241364369?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6rK6p6PliAMVU4hQBh3H5xEeEAQYASABEgKpofD_BwE
or any of the DK dinosaur books, but this remains my favourite.
There will also be loads of more basic books for a 3/4 year old but I think I got my DC the one above when he was 3 and he absolutely loves the beautiful illustrations and as he’s got a bit older (now 5) I read him more of the text, which he also loves

@Ponoka7 yes STEM stuff "for girls" has to be crystals and shit doesn't it. My MIL still struggles with girls having non-pink related interests. My dd (the future paleontologist) over asked for science sets for her birthday once so MIL bought her a candle making kit and said "it's like science but for girls"

Agh my post should say Mary Anning

@dinosaurgirll
Children play with different toys - so long as they are played with who cares.
My DS had a pram to push his teddy in at age 3. It was a 'boys pram' - his words as it was red and had animal print on it - the ex went mad - I loved it kid would walk miles with teddy 🧸 in the pram, didn't like walking much before that. He also had a merman (it was a princess aerial dress with the tail effect) costume. He's just turned 18 and is Bball mad now, in to girls and fairly rounded kid - the pram did him no harm.
My DD both had train sets, dinosaurs, car garage's and tool sets.
All toys are a form of development, whether it's learning the dinosaur 🦕/ cart names.
The dinosaurs will do her no harm, I'd advise getting some child friendly dinosaur books to help her learn the names as well as they toys.
Hope you all have a lovely Christmas, ignore the judgy friend 🧡

Yes other things she's asked for include an Elsa doll, a pink scooter, and (I have no idea where this this last one came from): a sparkly poo cushion (?!) 😂

Everyone knows there were no female dinosaurs, that's why they died out.

YABU to ask the question, although it was clearly your idiotic friend who put crazy thoughts in your head!

Check out https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=18407

Wow your friend.....my 2.5 year old DD is currently obsessed with Batman, she loves monster trucks, bugs, tractors..... if we go to a supermarket toy aisle she won't even look at the dolls. We have about 20 different dinosaurs including (gasp) 'boys' pyjamas because she didn't want pink fairy ones.

I'm a bit flabbergasted that you have to ask if it's 'ok' to buy your 3 year old a toy. Kids like what they like. The hang ups are on you.

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

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.

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.

@haroldwilson 💯😂

By 'you' I mean your friend obviously

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.

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

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”.