Gigi: Nah, we won't ignore you, you raised a few interesting points. Having had a 3yo DD and desperately wanting to avoid the highly advertised toys eg Barbie etc I found that it was a minefield and that, at the end of the day I had to "choose my battles" so to speak. Biggest issue was that other people bought them for her and try taking a new Barbie doll off a 3yo. So, as is my way, I tried to turn a negative into a postive and used poor old Barbie as a learning opportunity and 'tool' hehe. I sat down and played "Barbies" with her and during the course of our role play I made sure to point out "oooh Barbie has a very funny shaped body doesn't she? Have you ever seen a lady look like her? Nooooo" etc Anyhow, just a strategy and a warning: you won't be able to control the influences as much as you would like with your children... and sometimes, unfortunately, you'll have to choose your battles and what you think now as being important may kinda be put on the backburner when the time comes.
ETA: you might think that when the times comes you'll just tell everyone not to buy a Barbie doll (for example) but... I found that really hard for many reasons... probably best for another thread... in a nutshell there's only so many toys you can broadcast your "boycott"... people don't see the big picture... ok, so they don't buy a Barbie... they buy a Bratz instead
Last edited by Bathsheba; July 17th, 2007 at 03:49 PM.
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