While sitting with some other moms at my son’s baptism reception, one of them alerted me to the fact that the kids were playing with a doll–a gender specific doll. A group of little girls were giggling while watching my seven-year-old daughter make her male doll pee as she fed him a bottle of water. I screamed to my daughter, “Come here!” As I smiled at the moms, I calmly told my daughter, “Honey, that’s not the best toy to play with right now. Let’s not glorify that.”
“Okay, mommy,” was the response.
As my daughter regrouped with her friends one of them asked, “Can we still play with the doll?” My child’s answer? “Yeah, we just can’t glorify it!”
Sarah, mother of 5
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Oh, that is a funny one! And WHO makes gender specific dolls???? Are you kidding me? Yikes!
I know. For real, right? We’ve come a long way from Betsy Wetsy Dolls. (How dare they use a name that people actually have?! That can be traumatizing for a young girl. Good thing I don’t know anyone by that name who would have been made fun of as a child.)
Yea, it could have been a “Paul Pee doll” or something like that.
Or better yet, “Pee Paul doll.” Has an even better ring to it. Ooh, dibs!
There are probably worse ways they could have ‘glorified it’…
No joke!
LOL!
So cute! It is so funny how our kids take what we say to heart.I can’t quit smiling!