I could not agree more with this poster. I would let your son decide. As a mother to two boys, it is often difficult to watch my macho husband tell my little ones that they cannot have something because it is for girls. I will never forget the knock down drag out over a tea set the boys wanted (which incidentally would have been a wonderful tool for beginning training for table manners as well as encouraging imaginative play). THe other thing that concerns me about raising boys and separating things out (instead of letting them choose) is that the separating seems to suggest negative connotations about girls things. They will learn to love and then hate and then love girls again on their own. As their mother, I don't ever want to suggest anything that girls do or like is bad. I want my boys growing up respecting all people. THey learn what is "gender appropriate" from peers, and I never want them to hear from me that this is girlie, and therefore bad. I realize to some this is making a mountain out of a mole hill, but it is important to me that my boys learn these lessons early.
Budly
