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Parents did your kids play exclusively with gender neutral toys?

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I tried to provide lots of gender neutral toys for my children when they were little and encouraged them to play with both boys and girls toys at mother and baby groups. We never had a television (purposely) when they were young but they still conformed to stereotype.

My son turned anything he could lay his hands on into an imaginary sword, gun or bomb to blow up the dolls. My daughter spent hours brushing toy horse’s hair, making clothes for for the farm animals and colouring ‘pretty pictures’.

Parents, did your kids play exclusively with gender neutral toys? How did that go?

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