quote:Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
the thought of a 6 year old with that latched on to her!
quote:Originally posted by Growlybear:I really don't like to see little girls being given baby dolls to play with; I hate the idea of reinforcing stereotypes with toys like that. My daughter never showed any interest in baby dolls or Barbies when she was little, which was just as well as I would never have bought her onequote:Originally posted by Blizzie:
OK, so we don't mind six year olds having pretend babies, pushing them around in prams, changing their nappies, giving them bottles of milk, bathing them?
Hopefully, we don't mind them pulling their t-shirts up and pretending to breast feed them, or putting them up their jumpers and pretending to give birth?
Crying noises are OK, as are giggles and whingey noises?
So, just the suckling noise is 'creepy' and vile and totally inappropriate for a child!
. I remember my mother in law buying Growly Jnr a baby doll when she was about 4 - she took one look at it, declared it to be 'really horrible' and it sat in the spare room until it went to a car boot sale.
quote:Originally posted by jamieboy:
the ad on this page is realistic babies
man they are freaky
I bet you doquote:Originally posted by Darthhoob:
me and you (and your daughter it seems) are very alike
except i don't fancy John McCririck
quote:Originally posted by Growlybear:I bet you doquote:Originally posted by Darthhoob:
me and you (and your daughter it seems) are very alike
except i don't fancy John McCririck
I've seen these before. There's a whole collectors industry around them, and I think they are really disturbing. APart from that, real babies are bad enough - why would anyone want a pretend one?quote:Originally posted by jamieboy:
the ad on this page is realistic babies
man they are freaky
quote:Originally posted by Darthhoob:quote:Originally posted by Growlybear:I really don't like to see little girls being given baby dolls to play with; I hate the idea of reinforcing stereotypes with toys like that. My daughter never showed any interest in baby dolls or Barbies when she was little, which was just as well as I would never have bought her onequote:Originally posted by Blizzie:
OK, so we don't mind six year olds having pretend babies, pushing them around in prams, changing their nappies, giving them bottles of milk, bathing them?
Hopefully, we don't mind them pulling their t-shirts up and pretending to breast feed them, or putting them up their jumpers and pretending to give birth?
Crying noises are OK, as are giggles and whingey noises?
So, just the suckling noise is 'creepy' and vile and totally inappropriate for a child!
me and you (and your daughter it seems) are very alike
except i don't fancy John McCririck
i'm not girly at all, never been maternal...so never seen the point in dolls. best xmas present i ever got was a crayola set that taught you how to draw cars graphically correct
quote:Originally posted by Darthhoob:
i think watching Child's Play when i was about 5 years old didn't help my hatred of dolls
i had much older brothers who let me watch it when they were babysitting before you blame my parents lol. they also let me watch Exorcist but i found that funny
