to find this rather sad

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dd2 is four and in reception.

Today we took dd1 to Rainbows and dd2 took her teddy in a dolly pram. When we had dropped dd1 off I suggested going to the park. Dd2 cried and cried and said she didn't want to go, which really surprised me as she normally loves it. Eventually it came out that she was worried that there would be children from her school who would see her with a dolly pram and laugh at her. I thought that was really sad...

oh tahts very sad

My DD is 8 and took her dolly in a pram to the shops recently!

that is sad, i remember playing with the pram for years.

they grow up to quick i noticed mt dd with mascara on this morning 7 yrs old....

st 4
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what a shame

move house

Oh that's awful. There is such a big difference between reception children and year 6 though isn't there? Year 6 ones are so grown up in comparison.

I told her I would tell off anybody who would laugh at her, and we did go then. There were children there from her school, just a couple, and dd2 didn't play with the pram while they were there, only once they had left.

Move house ?

aah.DS is 4 and likes playing with his sisters' dolls,he was bathing one tonight I don't reckon he would do it in front of other boys,though.

4yo??? That is indeed sad. I played with my doll's pram for years and years. And dd1 had a coach-built Silver Cross doll's pram which dd2 is only just growing out of playing with now she's 12. It's always been a big favourite with visiting children, they love cramming it with dolls, teddies, cats, rabbits and anything else that comes to hand.

we had a children's silver cross pram too.

i haven't seen any children pushing prams about like they used to either.

That's really sad, my 4 year old is just the same and desperate to look cool - I caught her applying lip gloss this morning to go to nursery

my mum oplayed with dolls until she was 14 apparently

How sad!!!! My dd's (7 and 5) took their prams and babies to the park the other day and I didnt even cross my eldest dd's mind that people from her school would be there and take the mick. She does often want the same shoes etc that her friends have.

it didnt even cross her min, not I

god that's really sad.

MOve to Spain.

ALL the kids play with prams here, in fact my four year old has been pestering me for a new three-wheeler

mind even. Damn my stupid fingers this morning.

my old mum (bless her) wasnt the best at managing money and for 3 years since junior 1 she'd paid into a christmas club to get me a dolls pram- unfortunately her haphazard payments made my xmas gift before i started secondary a .....dolls pram!!!

Sounds like a bearpit nice school, full of self-obsessed oversophisticated little gits really nice children.

Your poor little daughter.

ohhhhhhhhhhh poor baby! is sad but kids wanna be all glamed up teeny boppers now even so young, and those that dont, feel they have to conform anyway, 4 is still very young though to be so aware, must be bothering her.

Oh poor dd2

My friend's dd was about 8 or so when she decided to keep secret from her school friends that she still played with dolls. She kept them in a downstairs room, not her bedroom, and she and her mum used to say they were dd's old dolls that were there for younger children to play with when they visited.

Was it her class mates who she thought would laugh at her, or children from higher up in the school?

Very, very sad.

My 8 year old still takes her pram to the park.

oh that is so sad. sometimes i am glad dd is in the sn world. she is 13 and has her doll and her freind is 19 and has one.

A couple of years ago my cousin came home from school (aged about 7 or 8 at the time) and said she wanted to get rid of all her barbie stuff (posters, toys, clock) cause it was 'babyish'!

My 7 year old asked if she could have a "quiet word" with me the other day - she wanted to know if she could have new trainers for PE as the other kids in her class were taking the piss out of her Fifi ones. Poor lamb. Why are children so cruel?