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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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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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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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Welcome to the mainstream
So you may remember back at the beginning of the year hearing something about a call to boycott the retailer J C Penney because it had hired Ellen Degeneres as a spokesperson? … Continue reading
Posted in Musings on the News, Shopping
Tagged ad, Ellen Degeneres, JC Penney, One Million Moms
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