to be annoyed with this sexist reading advice sent home from school?

[morningpaper]

"Until the day your daughter expresses an interest in rocket science or your son gets into showjumping, you won?t go far wrong if you try them out with these kinds of books?

Boys...

• Enjoy books about their interests - especially dinosaur ones!
• Like books that are a bit scary, funny or have silly jokes.
• Often have a shorter attention span, so books you can dip in and out of may work better for them. Try comic strip books and non fiction.
• Prefer big, bold, colourful illustrations or things that can be moved or touched.
• Like reading to have a purpose, for example books that show you how to make things or tell you about things.

Girls...

• Enjoy series of books about the same characters.
• Like to listen to talking books and watch DVDs of favourite books.
• Enjoy a bit of fantasy, magic and make believe ? princesses, castles and so on.
• Like sparkle and glitter on the pages.
• Enjoy books that have props with them ? dolls, soft toys, dressing-up clothes."

Why have you bumped a 3 year old thread? You could just start your own...

wtf? this makes me feel so sad.

Don't be sad - it's not even on the website any more, as far as I can see.

YADNBU

You were not being unreasonable.

I would be absolutely livid!

I haven''t read this huge thread but once Mumsnet had asked us to fill in our childrens reading habits and the form asked us abut which books our kids would like...then it listed them in sexes...and al the boys things were science and dino related and the girls were fairys and crap.

was SO annoyed.

complain to the school and/or ask for evidence.

IT WAS THREE YEARS AGO!!!!

Oh... silly me, thats alright then... girls = glitter, boys = dinosaurs. Got it.

at Feenie getting so irate :o and breeeeeathe! :)

ha ha I thought it sounded familiar, I was trying to work out where I'd seen it.
So that'll be here then, 3 years ago.

Sorry, it was my fault. I am new to MN and got a bit carried away. It caught my interest and I didn't notice the date. I'm not greatly computer literate and am just getting used to using one without being nervous, so I wouldn't be confident about opening a new thread yet. I didn't even know what a cyber thread was 3 or 4 days ago. 2008 isn't very long ago for such steryotyped advice to be given though is it. The topic is still of interest. But I'm embarrassed about the date. Are old threads not to be commented on then???? I don't know the etiquette yet.

Welcome to mumsnet Blindcavesalamander

mumsnet is a great place to cut your computer teeth, so to speak.

Watch out it's a tad addictive though!

Mumsnet is a massive place, with different kind of posters in different areas.

This is AIBU, which is the scariest most frank, so don your hard hat here! (But be aware that people are downright rude franker here than they might be elsewhere on the site)

When I started posting here I joined the thread for babies due the same month as mine, which was lovely.

I then started posting threads when I had questions about my pregnancy and I got great responses from really knowledgeable and supportive people.

WRT resurrecting old threads can be annoying if people don't realise and start commenting as if it's current. So with this thread if someone decided to take action and email the company they'd look pretty silly when the company said "but that was 3 years ago!". If you want to comment on the same issue you could start a new thread and link to the old one, perhaps, there'd be no confusion then.

Have fun