Playing House?
With 3 girls and 1 boy, I tend to be a bit conscious of what toys Jack chooses to play with. Not that its a big deal what toys he plays with, but I want to make sure that he has (and enjoys playing with) the few boy toys he owns instead of the plethora of girlie toys laying around the house. I realize that he doesn’t care if the toys are “boy” or “girl” in nature and I tell myself that I don’t really care either, but I think that on a subconscious level it does bug me just a tiny bit when he chooses to play with the girl toys.
So, the other day I walk into the front room and see this:
Now a house isn’t really gender specific, but I guess it tends to lean more to the “girlie” side. And so my immediate thought was… “aren’t there some trucks or something you could be playing with?”. I then proceeded to walk over so I could watch him for a bit and when I came around the other side of the house, I saw this:
Well… that changes everything! I’m totally ok with him playing house if the house is full of cars and dinosaurs. What red-blooded American boy wouldn’t want to live in that house? Now I just need to teach him to flex and growl.
