Dennis is spot on.
When each of my kids was ~14 months I did a gender function check. IMO this was the important age when transitioning from generic baby toys to gender-specific toys.
I put the kid in the front of a Wal-Mart cart. They were taken down the toy aisle of the opposite sex first, then their own gender toy aisle to gauge their reaction and asses their ‘gender identity’ -a big worry for dads nowadays. Both of them registered disinterest, even disgust (daughter) in the opposite gender toy aisle and overwhelming joy and attraction in their gender toy aisle. They passed with flying colors and got a toy to boot. They still get a kick out of the story.
Their mother just couldn’t understand it at the time. Her response was “How do they KNOW”?
Yeah, Dennis has it right.
Thanks justa. I didn’t worry about that when my kids were young. Of course I didn’t have to worry about the schools indoctrinating them either.
Great story...
You think outside the box. God love your wife, she wasn’t quite there.
Yes. Dennis was right.
Reminds me of this interview I had to listen to for my psych class. This Feminist psychologist attempted to give her children, a boy and a girl, toys that typically are played with by the opposite sex. She gave her boy a doll and her girl a truck. The boy proceeded to use the doll as a gun or something, and the girl “mothered” the truck and rocked it to sleep and such. It was at that point that the feminist realized that each sex has certain innate gender roles that they will fulfill.