Tag Archives: gendering toys
What’s your favourite bedroom?
I’m on holiday! So today and tomorrow you are getting a couple of posts I’ve been saving up for a little while to make at an opportune moment. I don’t know yet what the bedroom will be like at the … Continue reading
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Is your child normal or is he a girl?
A small boy I looked after sometimes had been given a real computer for his 7th birthday – a second-hand BBC Micro, which will tell you how long ago this was. He showed me it, full of pride and joy, … Continue reading
It already IS a girl’s toy
Years ago, my mother made one of the best toy-purchasing decisions ever: she bought myself and my brother and sister three hundred-brick boxes of Legos. And for years afterward, we got extension kits. I still remember a Lego car I … Continue reading
