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Buy This Instead!
It would be very easy for me to spend most of my time between now and Christmas harping on all the stereotypical toys and ads swirling about. I realized this morning that Parenting Lesson 101 is Positive Reinforcement — give … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Books, Clothing, Holidays, positive femininity, positive masculinity, Shopping
Tagged advice, chapter book, Christmas, Coloring book, positive images, shirts, shopping
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Going public
One blog-reader wrote me about her family’s Halloween experience this year, and it is SUCH a great story that I asked her to be a guest blogger for today. Here is her story: *** Last night, my 4-year-old son “went … Continue reading
Posted in Clothing, Gender complexity, Holidays, Parenting, Princesses, Stereotypes
Tagged costume, Halloween, party, Rapunzel, siblings, Snow White
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The Annual Halloween Dilemma
Several of you have written me asking me to write about Halloween costumes. I am just back from five days away at a conference (I will share some about my paper soon!) so I am behind at work, but wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Clothing, Gender complexity, Holidays, Parenting, Stereotypes, Uncategorized
Tagged advice, costumes, Disney, gender stereotypes, Halloween, non-conforming, parenting, princesses, Samhain, sexy
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The Olden Days
Jo Paoletti’s great slideslow of shower cards for new babies, 1915-1957 It is fun and instructive to go back in time and look at how gendered choices for children have changed over time. For some reason, this photo of FDR … Continue reading
Posted in Clothing, HIstory, Parenting, Shopping, Social construction
Tagged blue, boys in dresses, Children, Clothing, Dress, fashion, FDR, Gender, Jo Paoletti, pink
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Men in skirts
New Buzzfeed article (translated from German) about a dad who wears skirts in solidarity with his five year-old son. My favorite line is a toss up between: “You only don’t dare to … Continue reading
Mixing it up – toywise
The big news this week is that Harrods, the famed London department store, opened its first gender-neutral toy store, designed by Shed Design. “The London department store commissioned the multi-million pound Toy Kingdom to be grouped by theme rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Clothing, Gender complexity, pink, Princesses, Shopping, Social construction, The boy box, The space between, Toys
Tagged gender-neutral, Harrods, London, Toy, Toy Kingdom
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“Marriage” sermon suggests squashing girlishness “like a cockroach”
Pastor Sean Harris, Berean Baptist Church, Fayetteville, NC (517 Glensford Drive Fayetteville, NC 28314, (910) 868-5156) “Marriage Sunday” sermon – April 29, 2012 (full audio here) Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the … Continue reading
Warrior Princesses
This picture is making the rounds on Facebook the last couple days. I could definitely see my own four year-old daughter asking this question; one of her favorite books is Brave Margaret, in which the heroine, faced with a sea … Continue reading
Mani-pedis and Male polish
The saving grace of capitalism is that perceived immorality goes out the window when the potential customer demographic gets large enough. That’s how we got bilingual milk ads (featuring Salma Hayek and Sofia Vergara), and why Time Warner Cable has … Continue reading
Posted in Clothing, Gender complexity, Masculinity, Musings on the News, pink, The boy box
Tagged Mitt Romney, nail polish, pedicures, Sean Hannity
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