Re: But that's a girl's toy!

P. G. Chavez wrote:
> I'll be watching the responses.  My DD (5yo) has been teaching DS
> (3yo) which colors are "girl colors" and which are "boy colors."
> Where does she get this?  Talk about silly ideas!

But it's not so silly to the child.  The amount of detail and attention that
a child gives to learning who they are and how they fit into the world is
enormous.  They spend a great deal of their early childhood moving towards
gender extremes.  It isn't until late elementary school to jr high middle
school age that they come to terms with the other gender.  Girl toys and
colors and boy toys and colors are just the first few steps into a child
learning and deciding how they fit into the world around them.

Laurel