Toddler toys, should I get my boy a doll?

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So I have a 15 month old, he’s very wild, never stops moving, obsessed with footballs/basketballs and cars and bikes and trucks. He’s always play fighting with his dad and uncles and throwing himself about like a little rocket.

HOWEVER, he is soo gentle with the dog and his baby cousin and says ‘aww’ and strokes them 🥹, I’m thinking to get him a boy doll to nurture his little caring side (still adore his crazy side too) but I think it would be nice for him to have more opportunities to do both. He’s in a family of lots of boys so he doesn’t get much opportunity to do the less typical boy stuff. After all, little boys grow up to be dads and looking after baby dolls is good life skills for them too 😂

Yea absolutely, I have one boy in a family of girls, he really started to reject "girlie" stuff at around 2.5, maybe to really prove he was a boy, so I got him a boy doll which he loved and pushed around and minded.

My ds is 9 and i bought him a baby doll for his 9th birthday, he is autistic and has a cognitive delay, he absolutely loves his baby, i have given him his baby sister’s old baby clothes, so he can dress her and bought a pack of newborn nappies, he cuddles her n kisses her and takes her in the bath with him, so cute but he also loves dinosaurs and cars, nothing wrong with boys having baby dolls, i am looking at buying him an interactive one for Christmas xx

Yes of course! My boys have all had dolls and tea sets and hairstyling heads along with cars and trains and dinosaurs! My 2 year old wants a buggy for his baby so I'm getting him one for Christmas along with a few new outfits. If they enjoy playing with them, then why not? When I was a child my best christmas present one year was a train set and pack of racing cars. I played with those endlessly, along with my barbies and fake make up set! Toys are toys.

Why on earth would you not? If you think he'll like it, get one and try it. And it doesn't need to be a 'boy doll' either, boys can look after girls 🙄

Yes definitely! My son loves pushing his baby around in its little stroller

Can't think why you'd think to even question it?

This is so fucking tedious. Why are you even questioning this? What irritates me the most is that you feel the need to preface any justification for buying your son a doll with this sexist nonsense...

"So I have a 15 month old, he’s very wild, never stops moving, obsessed with footballs/basketballs and cars and bikes and trucks. He’s always play fighting with his dad and uncles and throwing himself about like a little rocket.^"
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Please stop looking at your son through such an archaic and sexist lens. I have a boy and a girl and I am raising them exactly the same. Their genitals have no bearing on what toys I buy them, what I think they're capable of, what skills I nurture or encourage. Stop seeing him as a boy. He is a child

I have two toddler boys and they have plenty of dolls and stuffed animals available to play with. They never, ever touch them. All they're interested in is toy cars, trucks and monster trucks. I find it fascinating. I have an older DD and at this age, all she did was play with her babies and animals. Caring for them, setting up little tea parties etc. The boys just want to run riot and throw monster trucks off the furniture. DD had toy cars available too and she wasn't interested in them. I find it so interesting how differently they play.

My boys adored their dollies (their babies they used to call them ♥️) and were so kind to them. I definitely think it brought out their nurturing side although to be fair they have a very nurturing dad so would have been like that anyway!

What are you asking? If you'll turn him gay? If he'll actually play with it? If someone will find out and mock him?

Just get him one of you want. And any other toys that are usually gendered.

Mind you, 5yo boy has a baby doll who is mainly thrown about. He likes Polly pocket tho!