Dolls.. An inappropriate toy for your child?

the 3 oldest are so close in age that some people thought they were twins or even triplets (yes the 3rd child was big for his age)
my oldest daughter loved the rainbow brite show and is now collecting all the old dolls for my grand-daughter

 

I wish I still had my Rainbow Brite dolls. I would have loved to have given them to my daughter.

 

my little sister, little brother, my niece and both of my daughters all displayed an instant attraction to other babies, shows with babies on them and baby dolls. it's a part of our socialization make up. babies love to watch each other, interact with each other, and play with each other. baby dolls are partially an outcome of this. it's not totally gender-role based, there's long tradition in my family of the little boys attaching to doll-babies, too. all of them have grown out of it eventually, though my daughter REALLY loves babies to this day. i think it's just how she is. i've bought her tonka trucks, digger tools, baseballs, bats, matchbox cars and all that. she loves them all, but her babies are always with her, sitting there while she plays with them. she likes to take care of people and her babies are just part and parcel with her nurturing personality. she sees a cat, she wants to take care of it. she sees a puppy, she wants to take care of it. if you're sick, she'll baby you. it's just how she is and i'm going to let her be herself.

 

i think bratz are an immitation of blyth breeze with a tv cartoon to sell them.

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I grew up playing with Hot Wheels...I never got into the "doll" thing...

My little sister on the other hand, had every single Barbie doll ever made...we are the total opposite now....

I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

 

i think a good deal of a person's disposition is decided in the womb and they're gonna go their own way no matter what you do. and the only way you're gonna end up with a healthy child is if you help the be who they're gonna be, whoever that is.

 

I liked dolls, not really sure why though. I didn't like baby dolls though, only adult ones and I alwasy liked things like "My Little Ponies" more than human dolls.

 

i hated barbies. i was never really into dolls, really. i played with my brothers' toys mostly. climbed trees, rode bikes. hated when my friends wanted to play the whole Barbie wedding thing. god, that was so boring. but i tell ya, when my body was ready for a baby, it was like being kicked into sexual overdrive. i'd practically salivate when i saw babies. i wanted a baby so bad i ached. still, i managed to wait a few years. i never believed that whole biological clock thing until mine went off like a time bomb.

 

I am so terrified that mine will go off someday. At the moment I don't like babies and find them incredibly annoying. Yet I do love children as soon as they are older, so you never know.

When I played with my dolls I usually did Greek tragedy type things instead of wedding parties.

 

Same here.

 

ahahaaha... bdsm barbie