<p>I doubt that even one set of pink legos was ever purchased by a girl child. Every single one of them was probably purchased by an adult. </p>
<p>Happykid can take or leave legos now, but she spent hours playing with her primary-colored duplo blocks back in the day.</p>
<p>My kids actually had a horror of the pink aisle at toads r us.
It just seems so condescending to divide toys by sex, especially when the toys that seemed more appealing were considered " for boys".</p>
<p>I think active toys aimed at girls may serve a purpose however, if only to get adults thinking about why some materials are sex segregated,</p>
<p>I was born in 1958, and I had an older sister who was born in 1955. We grew up with regular legos and Lincoln Logs. We played with a regular Lionel train set, along with a tin western village with plastic cowboys. My dad bought me an erector set, and my sis a chemistry set one christmas. We had Barbies and baby dolls, and plastic dinosaurs and toy makeup kits and a toy diner with waitress figures that we pretended were girlfriends to the dinosaurs.</p>
<p>When I had a daughter, and later a son, they got Star Wars action figures, and Twister, and Legos and Owl Pellets and dinosaurs and Spice Girl Dolls and blocks and K’nex and marble runs and paint and chalk and cards and a computer and video games and wigs and costumes and…some of it was pink and some of it was not. I made it my mission to show my kids how to have fun with anything. I used to love playing in my mother’s button box. My kids used to make characters out of unshelled peanuts. I’m sure all of you have plenty of fun things to add to this, because you’ve all raised your share of interesting kids.</p>
<p>Looks like a neat product. But why not make it neutral colors and offer it to boys to help crossover to reading too?</p>
<p>I never had many toys & am perhaps hypersensitive to the memory of my younger brother getting the kinds of things I would have loved. I only got to have lego after he had glued them together & couldn’t get them apart again, so I wanted to make sure my girls had the opportunity to explore their interests.</p>
<p>My H has quite a collection of matchbox/ hot wheels cars.
My oldest was given a collection of her own; she & a friend made them skirts & houses.
My youngest loved to see how things work & of course you need to take things apart to do so. She was pier fishing with her dad, using smelt for bait. She began dissecting the fish with her fingers, carefully looking at how they were put together. She finished up by sticking their heads on her fingers & waggling them like they were olives at Thanksgiving.
That story is just so her.
( now she does mudruns with her bf for fun)</p>
<p>I think that toy looks boring. My daughter’s play with trains, Legos, blocks, everything their brother’s play with. And my sons get dolls too. </p>
<p>I do resent, though, how Pottery Barn, on their website…you click on “boy toys” and “girl toys.” I think it is offensive. So if my son wants a kitchen set from there, I have to get it under the “girl toy” area and if my daughter wants the construction set “boy toy.”</p>
<p>I had an erector set too and later got an engineering degree. Not sure if the two were related. I’ve also been a fairly “girly-girl”. I can vividly remember my Dad telling me “you can be ANYTHING you want to be”. I think that mattered more. Also, I’m stubborn and when people tell me something is hard (esp too hard) that is an invitation I can’t pass up.</p>