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

"toypup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Circe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > My daughter (4yo) is driving me bananas with her insistence that her
> > brothers may NOT play with her dolls/Barbies because they are not girls.
> If
> > she sees Vernon, in particular, pick up one of her dolls, she
practically
> > leaps on him to get it away from him. I have tried repeatedly to explain
> to
> > her that dolls are not JUST for girls--girls seem to enjoy playing with
> them
> > more often than boys do, but that doesn't mean boys can NEVER play with
> > them. Help?
>
> If your DS wants to play with Barbies, then buy him his own Barbies.  Why
> should he be relegated to sharing his sister's?  This way, he would have
his
> own to play with and his sister would see that dolls aren't just for boys.

So if a kid wants to play with something, sib says no, mom and dad should
buy kid his/her own???  Lol.  Not in my house.  What's wrong with letting
her see how nice it is to share?