Had to shake my head at what my DM just said

[speedySleighmamahohoho]

My 2yo DTS were bought a kitchen play thing and a work bench by my PIL. They prefer to play with the kitchen and basically ignore the work bench . I mentioned this to my DM on the telephone because I think it is quite cute and she said "They must think they are girls". My DM is in her 70s and obviously thinks that men never use a kitchen!

Oh well, as long as they enjoy playing with it, I'm happy!

it's a generation thing

Or you could say, 'ah, like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay!"

rather like my cricket obsessed PIL who complained bitterly that he could not find a pink cricket set for dd anywhere. i said why not just a cricket set in normal cricket set colours. he said oh i hadn't thought of that, will she not mind it's not pink? she was about 2 months old at this point btw.

Oh lololol at the pink cricket set!

Your DTs sound great, speedy

My 2 yo ds loves his kitchen, play cooking stuff, pushchair and two dolls, cleaning trolley and play vacuum cleaner. Note all of these were bought by us as all his presents from other people are cars, trucks or trains. He quite likes these too but the things he most plays with are the household type things. I am always amazed when I vist my friends with one ds - they have very few of these types of toys yet the ones with a dd all have them and more.

We had to buy them though - my parents tolerate them but are quite surprised by it too

my twin boys also love the play kitchens - we don't have one - but when we visit friends with one they can't keep away from it for more than a minute.

Yeah, aloha! Just get dts to swear a lot and abuse people while playing with kitchen - then they will be thought real little men

My Ds loves helping in the kitchen, he puts the oven gloves on and says "I'm a great cooker, mummy!" he does make me chuckle

My ds (2) has a kitchen and adores it. We bought it for him as we knew he would love it.

I never considered it being a 'girl's' toy when we brought it (not that I would have changed my mind) until someone pointed it out to me.

But then I did grow up with my dad doing most the cooking.

Ds's other toys are stereotypically 'boys' toys I suppose, though we just go with what he likes.

Dolls (especially those that make a noise or move - even if just their eyes) freak him out . He screamed the place down when he got given one.

Definately a generation thing. My pil are early 70's and their gender stereotyping astounds me. dh and I stayed there after Xmas, we went out one night, dh got a bit drunk and I drove home (I'm pg). Next morning pil were that dh had got drunk and couldn't figure out how we got home. 'dw drove' said dh, they were genuinely gobsmacked, jaws literally hanging open and mil said to me 'oh well done you for driving'

my DSs love their play kitchen and the buggy.

Definitely a generation thing - my PILs are a bit like that - crazy

Agreed about the generation thing. As well as trains and cars my dses have a kitchen, shopping trolley, a set of brushes and a buggy with a doll. My mil saw these at the weekend and was shocked. She told my sil that she wouldn't be surprised if they "turned out homosexual". I haven't laughed so much in ages. Stupid old cow.

My dses have loved their kitchen. In fact ds2, aged 4, begged Father Christmas for a hoover this year. He got it and loves it!

I'm working on getting them both into ironing now.

Both my boys have enjoyed playing with kitchens and prams.
Just tell PIL your preparing them for nursery where they have such things as home corners.

lol piglit. My friend's little 2yo boy insisted on carrying a pink plastic handbag around with him for quite a long time. And a more testosterone-fuelled little fellow you could not hpoe to meet!

I'm having a boy in March. I want him to be able to look after himself. I don't want to inflict some clueless, housework-phobic bloke on some hapless girl.

lol piglit - you should tell your MIL that homosexual men are the least likely people to be pushing a buggy around

DTS are still playing with the kitchen and the workbench is ignored. Just goes to show, chauvinistic men are groomed not born.

When the boys are old enough, I'm going to teach them how to knit.

tell your dm that my son age 9 (distressingly typical little boy in every wat) helps me to cook dinner every night and is dutifully writing down recipes for spag bol etc in hie 'recipe' book ''so that I won't starve when I leave home mumm''

Then again, when he leaves home he is planning to live with his best (male) friend - probably best not tell your DM that bit

oh god we had this - we've had play picnics with DS this summer for him and some of his toys so I got him some plastic cups and some of that plastic fruit they can pretend to cut up fro ELC - he loves this because he can have picnics with buzz lightyear all the time and because when Daddy is cooking he can 'help' by making a salad. My father is convinced this means he's gay. Even though my Dad has a range cooker and every gadget and loves to cook and has even gone on a butchery course himself double

Not always generational....my SIL made; a; pointed comment when my ds chose a pink plate at her son's birthday - something along the lines of 'that's okay whilst he's little, but not when he's a bit older' FGS.....She hates the fact her son LOVES washing the floor and cooking with nanny...

Lol at all of this. My 2yo DTS love to dust, clean the floor, wash up. They love their pink cutlery set and I bought them pink aprons for when they are painting etc. My DH wears pink shirts to work so what is wrong with boys having pink things?