1. Have you saved any toys from your childhood to give to lo (or not)? I have Winnie the pooh stuffed animals, but have yet to give them to J. They're still in storage.
2. Does your LO have a favourite toy? Yes, plastic spoons.
3. Do you have a favourite of lo's toys? I love when J plays with her stuffed puppy because she gets so excited to see it.
4. Does your LO have any toys you find creepy? No, thank goodness!
1. Have you saved any toys from your childhood to give to lo (or not)?
My parents let my nieces and nephew play with my toys and then threw them away. Not that I'm bitter... I did manage to keep my books.
L does have all the soft toys I've been given as an adult.
2. Does your LO have a favourite toy?
She loves soft toys, especially her ring-tailed lemur, dragon, and various cats. She loves balls so much that her birthday ball pool is permanently set up in a corner of the living room. Anything that makes a noise is a hit, including the piano. She's also crazy about books.
3. Do you have a favourite of lo's toys?
Apart from her favourites, I'm looking forward to when she takes an interest in dolls, if she ever does.
4. Does your LO have any toys you find creepy?
We've managed quite well until now because we've been able to filter out anything we didn't like, including anything by VTech. I don't think that will carry on working, though.
4. Hmm. Well when I was in the hospital after giving birth to LO, DS picked this out for him in the gift shop. Everyone that came in the room was like "what is THAT?" (It looks worse in person)
I have no less than 6 of these. And none of them are LO's....
1. Not a toy, exactly, but I have some pop-up books from National Geographic that I saved. They are really intricate and easy to rip so he hasn't played with any yet.
2. LO's favorite toy is this shape popping turtle. He follows it around. He does NOT like the shapes to be in there though. He will take them out before they pop out if I dare put them in.
3. My favorite toy (that LO really likes too) is this dump truck. I like putting the rocks in the hole.
Just catching up...omg with the Obelix as the cross dressing clown. My DH has ALL of the Astrix and Obelix books as well as all of the Tin Tin ones (English translations) I can't bring myself to read them because our French teacher used to torture us by making us translate them constantly.
I'm not offended at all. I mostly got them from students or family members who know I like turtles. It just seems like a lot of people have gotten one for me!
Post by wegrowsheep on Jul 13, 2016 22:36:37 GMT -5
1. Have you saved any toys from your childhood to give to lo (or not)? For DD (almost 7): 3 American Girl (Pleasant Company) dolls (Addy, Kirsten, Felicity), Breyer horses, and a big dollhouse that my dad built. And a pony barn. 2. Does your LO have a favourite toy? T likes tractors. All tractors. 3. Do you have a favourite of lo's toys? Anything that keeps him busy. mrsdee1982 got him a ballpit that's popular with all 3 kids 4. Does your LO have any toys you find creepy? DD has a Toy Story doll (2 actually) with pull strings to make them talk. Sometimes they talk anyways...
I saved a Barbie doll set from my old job (I worked for a clothing company that did a limited edition Barbie doll set) so i saved it to give to A one day. H saw it and said that he doesn't want her to ever get Barbie dolls because he thinks they give young girls a distorted body image etc.
I saved a Barbie doll set from my old job (I worked for a clothing company that did a limited edition Barbie doll set) so i saved it to give to A one day. H saw it and said that he doesn't want her to ever get Barbie dolls because he thinks they give young girls a distorted body image etc.
Thoughts? Do you guys agree? Is he overreacting?
I loved my Barbies growing up. I never bought the "they promote distorted body image" thing because I knew Barbie was a doll - she wasn't supposed to represent reality. And now they do have a variety of body types, so you can buy her those to even things out?
I saved a Barbie doll set from my old job (I worked for a clothing company that did a limited edition Barbie doll set) so i saved it to give to A one day. H saw it and said that he doesn't want her to ever get Barbie dolls because he thinks they give young girls a distorted body image etc.
Thoughts? Do you guys agree? Is he overreacting?
Sorry but laughing at your H thinking he can 'forbid' A from having barbies. Wait until she is 6-8 years old and ALL her friends have them. He will cave
My parents dug their heels in and I was never allowed Barbies, My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, Care Bears or anything that was really popular. I don't think they realised how isolated that made me. We will not be doing that with L.
@poppyc8 I love and collect Barbie and actually have written papers for my paycheck classes on this idea. The research generally shows that actually girls just want to boss Barbie around NOT be like her. It makes them feel empowered. So no I don't believe a plastic doll will make a girl hate her body.
I saved a Barbie doll set from my old job (I worked for a clothing company that did a limited edition Barbie doll set) so i saved it to give to A one day. H saw it and said that he doesn't want her to ever get Barbie dolls because he thinks they give young girls a distorted body image etc.
Thoughts? Do you guys agree? Is he overreacting?
I get where he's coming from, but it's a little third-party. He's not speaking from experience, so I think your thoughts on the matter were important. You played with Barbies, how do you feel it effected your view of body image? I think young girls have distorted body images from other areas, so I wouldn't lay all the blame on a toy.
I saved a Barbie doll set from my old job (I worked for a clothing company that did a limited edition Barbie doll set) so i saved it to give to A one day. H saw it and said that he doesn't want her to ever get Barbie dolls because he thinks they give young girls a distorted body image etc.
Thoughts? Do you guys agree? Is he overreacting?
My sister and I had allllllll the Barbies growing up. I just liked that she had cooler outfits than my mom would let me wear, and we would set up these really elaborate pretend lives/adventures for them. I honestly don't buy into the notion that just because Barbie looks a certain way means a little girl will realistically want to emulate that. There's way more that goes into body image than what toys she plays with.
1. Have you saved any toys from your childhood to give to lo (or not)? For DD (almost 7): 3 American Girl (Pleasant Company) dolls (Addy, Kirsten, Felicity), Breyer horses, and a big dollhouse that my dad built. And a pony barn. 2. Does your LO have a favourite toy? T likes tractors. All tractors. 3. Do you have a favourite of lo's toys? Anything that keeps him busy. mrsdee1982 got him a ballpit that's popular with all 3 kids 4. Does your LO have any toys you find creepy? DD has a Toy Story doll (2 actually) with pull strings to make them talk. Sometimes they talk anyways...
Can you share which ballpit? I want to order one for M.
1. Have you saved any toys from your childhood to give to lo (or not)? For DD (almost 7): 3 American Girl (Pleasant Company) dolls (Addy, Kirsten, Felicity), Breyer horses, and a big dollhouse that my dad built. And a pony barn. 2. Does your LO have a favourite toy? T likes tractors. All tractors. 3. Do you have a favourite of lo's toys? Anything that keeps him busy. mrsdee1982 got him a ballpit that's popular with all 3 kids 4. Does your LO have any toys you find creepy? DD has a Toy Story doll (2 actually) with pull strings to make them talk. Sometimes they talk anyways...
Can you share which ballpit? I want to order one for M.
1. Have you saved any toys from your childhood to give to lo (or not)? I've saved some toys... But haven really given any to J yet... My mom has her playing with some that look very familiar, but they might have been my little sisters...
2. Does your LO have a favourite toy? This... But only the teapot. She also likes Beat Bo.
3. Do you have a favourite of lo's toys? It's silly, it's so little... But she has so much fun capturing it after I wind it up (it's a bath toy)
4. Does your LO have any toys you find creepy?[/quote] Yes. DH gave her a stuffed animal he got from a loot crate that's one of those face sucking things from Alien. She had no idea of course, but still creepy...
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