If anyone has a dinosaur-obsessed small boy to buy for....

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

...there’s a fantastic National Geographic book - IIRC The Little Kids’ First Big Book of Dinosaurs. I think someone mentioned it on here last year, so thanks for that, whoever it was!
It’s a big hardback, with huge full colour illustrations, plus an adult size figure to show how big they were, and plenty of info, but the pictures are the main thing.

I bought it last year for Gds, who was still only 3 at the time - he adores that book and knows the names of many which the rest of us had never heard of.

[Harryrotter]

www.etsy.com/shop/maiasaurashop

I think this one does pants as well as clothes.

[Leeds2]

Fwiw, I recently bought some glow in the dark dinosaur socks from John Lewis for my two year old nephew.

[AtrociousCircumstance]

It’s important not to perpetuate stereotypes. Really, really important.

I realise you did it by accident OP but a classy little ‘whoops, sorry everyone - of course girls can love dinos too!’ would have been a lovely response, rather than defensive teeth-gnashing.

[Leftrightatthelights]

Thanks @WoooImAGhost I will do!

[WoooImAGhost]

That's awful You should seriously check out Dino Dana for her Left and if you go onto the Facebook page there's lots of videos promoting girls in science where she puts questions from girls to paleontologists.

[Leftrightatthelights]

My daughter (6) loves dinosaurs. I bought her a dinosaur lunch box and she started crying because she loved it but thought the other kids at school would laugh at her as ‘dinosaurs are for boys’.

That’s why we pick people up on saying this stupid shit. Because a 6 year old girl is crying because she’s been made to feel wrong and embarrassed by others because she likes dinosaurs but has a vagina.

And, surely you can’t be dense enough to not see this when you say ‘it’s only words’

[WoooImAGhost]

Dino Dana on Amazon Prime is absolutely brilliant for boys and girls but it's nice to have strong female leads as role models. My DS loves it, he's got the Dino Field guide that accompanies the series and I was bit hesitant because of the price but it's worth every penny. He's read it cover to cover over and over again.

[Smurf123]

@Inchargeofcupsandice
We got dinosaur pants for ds in tesco. They are dark colours but not shorts/ boxers.

[Pepperwand]

To get back to the point of the thread those National geographic books are brilliant, they have the big book of dinosaurs, space, sea, people etc they're a brilliant series.

B&M also stock large dinosaur toys made of quite a durable foam type material. Got the t rex last year, stegosaurus this year.

UKGE is a brilliant website for fossils.

Sass and Belle do a fabulous Christmas bauble that is Santa riding a t rex.

Rex London sell great dinosaur stocking fillers.... toothbrush, temporary tattoos, pencil cases etc.

[user686827]

I was also irritated when I saw your post title this morning, so I'm glad someone else has already spoken up. Just completely unnecessary stereotyping. Gender is not innate, it is a social construct. Your GD doesn't just have her mother to copy from, she picks it up from media and the world around her.

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

@ImaginaryCat, it was not a remotely conscious decision to type boy instead of child. As a pp has suggested, I dare say I was unconsciously thinking of my little grandson.

But please feel free to enjoy thinking I was deliberately conforming to outdated stereotypes - as you no doubt will.

Incidentally my slightly older Gdd is not particularly interested in dinosaurs - she’s much more into sparkly pink things and Barbies - and this despite having a mother who was an out and out tomboy, never remotely into anything girly, hated ever having to wear a dress, lived in shorts and T shirts , inc. at school. (Abroad.) So there has never been a shred of maternal influence either way - it’s innate.

[JessicaJoans]

I think the adult figure is part of the illustrations to show the size of the dinosaur...

[Notcoolmum]

Here for the link!!

[Imtoooldforallthis]

Here here

I'm hoping someone will post a link to the book as the one on amazon doesn't seem to have the life size cot out that op mentioned.

[Time40]

Oh, for goodness' sake! Why do people have to be so nasty? The OP just wanted to share a nice Christmas present idea.

It's a conscious decision to type the word boy

No, it's not. It's really, really not - it's the opposite of conscious. The OP is very well aware that dinosaurs are for everyone. She just had boys in mind because she gave this book to a boy last year, that's all.

(And by the way - please will no one bother tagging me to "explain" why people need to be so nasty, because I don't need it "explaining")

[notanotheronepleasee]

Please can I have a link to look at this book.

I have a dinosaur loving girl AND boy... but am not offended at all

[Angrymum22]

‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ DVD set is a must for any budding dinosaur expert. DS had loads of books, it was actually the reason he learned to read. He would spend hours reading dinosaur facts.
He even had an imaginary dinosaur friend, a triceratops called Sharp. I once asked him if Sharp had got in the car with us, only to be told not to be silly and he was too big to fit in the car. I then asked if he ran behind “ no mummy, he rides on his motorbike!”. I still drive along one road and picture a triceratops on a motorbike driving through the field next to it!
His reception teacher also told me that he brought the imaginary triceratops to show and tell one week. On another occasion he had the whole class digging up the bark looking for fossils. He was obsessed and if asked will still real off various facts about the subject, although at 16 it’s very uncool.

[Aroundtheworldin80moves]

My DD got teased at school for her dinosaur lunch box, while a friend got teased for his unicorn one. Children pick up on stereotypes.

[Imtoooldforallthis]

Completely derailed the thread, I might be a dinosaur myself but everything everywhere ends up being categorised in some way, often it's the only way to sort stuff it doesn't mean you have to buy into it. If I want a car cleaning kit chances are I need to look in gift for dad section. If I want a light up mirror for male grooming it's coming to be in beauty section. We all know where to look for things. Yes things shouldn't be stereos typed, but nobody would bat an eyelid at girls wearing dinosaur pyjamas, does it matter there in the boys section.

[ImaginaryCat]

@Brandaris I don't understand why people are missing your very valid point.
Why didn't the OP say for dinosaur-obsessed DCs? It's a conscious decision to type the word boy. Why? Because all gender stereotypes tell us dinosaurs are for boys. The 'Toys for Boys' aisle in the thankfully long gone Toys R Us had plastic dinosaurs. Pyjamas with dinos on are found in the boys section of kids clothing shops. And then someone recommends a book and without giving it a moment's thought, says that it would make a great present for a boy.
If you can't see how deeply ingrained this nonsense is, you're not paying attention.

[LST]

The OP probably mentioned boy because she got it for a fucking boy. God people love to be professionally offended. Would it have bothered you if she'd have said for anyone with a my little pony obsessed boy? No? Thought not.

[Brandaris]

I won’t calm down until people stop suggesting that things like dinosaurs are for boys! It’s embarrassing it still has to be called out!

As I said, thank you for the recommendation for the book.

[Smurf123]

I'm assuming op bought the book for a dinosaur obsessed little boy hence the title.. Not sure it's worth getting on their case for saying boy instead of child.

Thanks op adding it to my list for ds 🙂

[Hotchocolatesforeveryone]

@Brandaris ffs calm down