In Which Stereotypical Gender Roles Stay Firmly Intact at My House

This morning Kate occupied herself with a screw driver for half an hour. She went all over the house "fixing" things. Every now and then I told her what a good job she was doing and she would look at me over her shoulder and smile, then push a mess of blond hair out of her face and continue with her work.

Will came in to see what us girls were up to. "Look, Will!" she squealed. "I'm fixing things! I'm a man!"

I laughed. "Kate, girls can fix things just like boys can. You don't have to pretend to be a man fixing things.  Be Kate fixing things."

Will snorted and pointed out that both Bob the Builder and Handy Manny were boys. Kate looked contemplative. I tried to reinforce my contested position.

"Kate?" I began, "Can girls fix things?"

She paused, then slowly nodded.

"What can girls fix?" Will asked.

Kate beamed. "Dinner!"  she yelled as she  threw down the screwdriver and ran off to play with her kitchen.

9:52 AM - Sep. 24, 2007 - post comment

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Too cute.

When Kaitlyn was a baby we made sure she had a variety of stereotypical boy and girl toys... she had dolls, toy trucks, toy tools, etc.

The funny thing was that she played with the boy toys in a sort of girly way though!

For instance, she wrapped her pink football in a blankie and "fed" it a bottle! LOL!

quietcajun - 1:16 PM - Sep. 24, 2007

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byourlove1 - 8:28 AM - Sep. 25, 2007

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That is so cute! I love the things kids say.

Ali

Aligirl - 11:56 AM - Sep. 25, 2007

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HaHA

I love this. and I just love the pink tools. must find some of those. have a great weekend

Bahamahomeschooler - 10:34 AM - Sep. 29, 2007

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