What do you think of a 9.4 year old who still likes playing with dolls/princess role play etc

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Dd1 still likes those things. I fully support her in that, but today we gave her friend a lift home and she was saying how babyish and silly etc to still like princesses.

I told dd that she had years in which to grow up but only this time to be a child, and to enjoy it.

as with everyone else really. 9 is still a child, as it 10, and 11, and 12...

I wonder whether it is a bit of bravado on behalf of the other child, wanting to look all grown up in front of you and your dd, possibly goes home and does the same just when no-one can see! i bet she has a bedtime dolly too!

DS1 (9) is like Ingles2's DS - always doing role-play with or without others. Loves dressing up in dress-up suits that are too small for him (belong to his 2 younger brothers ). He loves it, his brothers love that he is still wants to play 'Baby Catties' and I love it when they are all occupied

TBE - I live in deepest south east London.

DS (about to turn 10) still plays with his Playmobil and still wants some for Christmas - I'm always a bit by where they place it (with toys for younger children) in the Argos catalogue, tbh.

Oh and his friends all play with it when they come round. When ds goes to his mate's house, they spend hours playing with diggers and whatnot in his sandpit.

I think it's terribly sad for such young DCs to not play and use their imaginations like this.

dd1 is ten and plays at being a cat, has tea parties with the youner two, still loves her cuddlies and does ALOT of pretend play with babies, animals, being a vet etc

she doesn't like princess books, prefers horrid henry

JustDoMyLippy I loved my Sindies (as did my friends) Because I loved fashion and music as an 11 yo.

We devised some pretty storylines with them, too (prob. prompted by unsuitable soaps and mini-series!) - there was nothing babyish about it.

Do you have the orange bathroom set? And the horse?

My dd is 10 in January. She still loves playing with Playmobil. Has lots of friends, does lots of activities, is bright and bubbly and smart. No problems with it, as far as I can see.

I think it's really sad when kids are trying so hard to be grown up. My daughter tells me she doesn't want to grow up too soon. It's all hard work and too much effort. Hope she keeps thinking this way for a long, long time :)

DD is 9.7, and will probably ask Santa (yes, she still believes!) for a very special doll for Christmas. I never bought it for her as it is quite expensive (and I thought she'd lose interest), but she still wants one very much.

Also, about 2 months ago, she saved her pocket money for 3 months in order to buy a doll she wanted. She adores it, and cares for it as if it were a baby.

Like others have posted here - she still sleeps with her two most special dolls.

I was still doing this well into high school :) i had the excuse that I was either playing with my baby sister or "improvising" and that we were "actors" but it was the same thing :)

JenaiMarr The horse sadly took a bad fall sometime in the late seventies, and no furniture left. Or the music player - did you have that: played "What will Sindy do next,what will Sindy do..?" . Some Action Men too, they were there so they could be impressed with the beauty and all round accomplishments of the fabulously clothed dolls. And Pippa dolls as the children... all going too far now, I realise, and op was concerned about a 9 year old

Oh dear. Poor horse.

Noooo I never had the record player

I did have a Pippa though - well her friend Mandy (scroll down a bit - mine was exactly like the one on the lefthand side!). She was beautiful. My redheaded Sindy was by far my favourite out of all my dolls however..

I recently got a bit emotional and overexcited in a toy shop that had an excellent range of collectors Barbies (including remakes of ones I'd wanted but was too old for by the time they reached our shores). I dread to think how I'd react if I came across a similar selection of Sindys. I might actually faint.

I still like playing with dolls! I buy DD's toys because I like them!

I was still 'playing' with dolls etc. till quite an old age, but only with one particular friend who I had known forever and didn't go to school with. I think you learn quite quickly to temper your behaviour to your peers.

I don't think 9 is too old at all btw! There is an awful lot of pressure to grow up. Doesn't help with all these 'teen' movies where 19/20 year olds are playing 14 year olds, or even if the actors are younger they are in full make up and fashionable clothes.

My daughter has just turned 11 and her birthday wish list was nearly all sylvanians and shleic (however you spell it) horses etc. She loves them and plays with them for hours and has friends who do the same. I cherish it and let her grow up in her own sweet time. She is really sociable, mature and imaginative, good group of friends etc. Don't worry, sooner or later things will change!

My friends and I played out a long running saga with our baby dolls, in which we were effectively the groupies/baby mothers of our favourite pop stars, who all shared a flat.

Not sure I approve of us all being left behind holding the baby, as it were, whilst our glamourous boyfs swanned around having fun though

It has just occured to me that we were playing out an 80s version of today's WAGs

O, Mandy! Apologies to Barry Manilow. I had one too. Remember when i gor her, and really wishing I was like her, rather than a sturdy blonde girl. Sigh.

While the dolls and their clothes were quite Wagtastic, they were certainly the main event, with the men dolls just there as accessories. Maybe all this is why life liable always to be disappointment