What's the boy version of Barbies?

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Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

Uh no, I'm afraid he wouldn't enjoy playing with it because a Barbie doesn't interest him, because he's a (typical) boy. Not judging if other boys want to play dress up and do fashion shows with Barbies, truly I'm not. But that's not the case with my son, hence my clarification.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine had a lot of toys they would use to create worlds and scenarios and dialogue, just like i used my barbies. examples: thomas trains, playmobil (esp the medieval castles etc), legos legos legos, tubs of baseball and football guys (hopefully those are still in existence - my kids would build stadiums and fans with legos and magnatiles and then play with the sports guys in those worlds), and yes little plastic soldiers and figurines from the game Risk which they would use to plot out battles but not actually enact the fighting

Mine is so similar. He sets up the battle with army toys but, the battles never start. I will ask him when will the battle happen and he says “tomorrow” i guess the planning is the fun part.

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Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

What are you worried about if a boy doesn't want to play with a doll? Does he need intensive therapy? It's ok for boys to not want to play with dolls and it's ok for girls to play dress up and pretend to shop with their dolls.

And the opposite is also true. OP's shouting the word BOY in the middle of her post made it clear that she's not comfortable with the opposite.

If she had said "he isn't interested in Barbies" that would have been fine.

For my kids who weren't into Barbie (boys and girls), I think rescue heroes were the toys that came closest to Barbie in the kind of play (narrative play with multiple small figures), and hotwheels and Thomas were the things that came closest to collecting piece. For those of my kids (boys and girls) who do like Barbie the same toy filled both those niches -- something to collect, and something to play with narratively.

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One of my son’s friends has this and all the 3-5 year old boys seem to love it: https://www.amazon.com/KidKraft-Everyday-Heroes-Play-Set/dp/B0045O75AU/ref=asc_df_B0045O75AU/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309760595166&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18002973512611261397&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019663&hvtargid=pla-528855585532&psc=1

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Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

What are you worried about if a boy doesn't want to play with a doll? Does he need intensive therapy? It's ok for boys to not want to play with dolls and it's ok for girls to play dress up and pretend to shop with their dolls.

+1, despite all insistences to the contrary, I have never known even one boy who wanted to play with dolls or Barbies in the same way that girls want to. And yet, there’s the omnipresent message that it’s perfect alright.

I have, however, seen a woman, the mother of one my son’s preK classmates, who insisted that her daughter hated dolls and to please not get her one for her birthday. No problem, I got her a Friends Lego Set. The sad thing is that when she came over for a play date (that her mom basically begged for), she insisted on playing with my daughter’s dolls. My son got “bored out of [his] mind” and left her to go play with his train set. The alleged doll hater spent the entire time until her mom came to pick her up, by herself, relishing in the dolls that her mom insists she hates so much.

I realized that her mom is crazy and started avoiding them all together.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

What are you worried about if a boy doesn't want to play with a doll? Does he need intensive therapy? It's ok for boys to not want to play with dolls and it's ok for girls to play dress up and pretend to shop with their dolls.

And the opposite is also true. OP's shouting the word BOY in the middle of her post made it clear that she's not comfortable with the opposite.

If she had said "he isn't interested in Barbies" that would have been fine.

For my kids who weren't into Barbie (boys and girls), I think rescue heroes were the toys that came closest to Barbie in the kind of play (narrative play with multiple small figures), and hotwheels and Thomas were the things that came closest to collecting piece. For those of my kids (boys and girls) who do like Barbie the same toy filled both those niches -- something to collect, and something to play with narratively.

No, it really doesn't mean she's uncomfortable. Some boys don't like Barbies. Some girls don't like Barbies. A lot of women hate Barbie so why should they be forced on uninterested boys? OP predicted that someone like you would come along to derail the thread and she was correct.

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If you want a toy he can grow into, my son has a large Hot Wheels mega garage. It's almost never used to race cars on but it's used for all sorts of other imaginary play and characters. The play evolves as he ages. He's going on 8 and has had it several years.

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Bratz dolls
Monster high

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Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

What are you worried about if a boy doesn't want to play with a doll? Does he need intensive therapy? It's ok for boys to not want to play with dolls and it's ok for girls to play dress up and pretend to shop with their dolls.

And the opposite is also true. OP's shouting the word BOY in the middle of her post made it clear that she's not comfortable with the opposite.

If she had said "he isn't interested in Barbies" that would have been fine.

For my kids who weren't into Barbie (boys and girls), I think rescue heroes were the toys that came closest to Barbie in the kind of play (narrative play with multiple small figures), and hotwheels and Thomas were the things that came closest to collecting piece. For those of my kids (boys and girls) who do like Barbie the same toy filled both those niches -- something to collect, and something to play with narratively.

No, it really doesn't mean she's uncomfortable. Some boys don't like Barbies. Some girls don't like Barbies. A lot of women hate Barbie so why should they be forced on uninterested boys? OP predicted that someone like you would come along to derail the thread and she was correct.

If OP had said "my son doesn't like Barbies" then no one would have come along. If she'd said "my son doesn't like Barbies because he is a typical boy" I wouldn't have come along, but her use of capitalization was weird, and kind of offensive. She asked for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

What are you worried about if a boy doesn't want to play with a doll? Does he need intensive therapy? It's ok for boys to not want to play with dolls and it's ok for girls to play dress up and pretend to shop with their dolls.

And the opposite is also true. OP's shouting the word BOY in the middle of her post made it clear that she's not comfortable with the opposite.

If she had said "he isn't interested in Barbies" that would have been fine.

For my kids who weren't into Barbie (boys and girls), I think rescue heroes were the toys that came closest to Barbie in the kind of play (narrative play with multiple small figures), and hotwheels and Thomas were the things that came closest to collecting piece. For those of my kids (boys and girls) who do like Barbie the same toy filled both those niches -- something to collect, and something to play with narratively.

No, it really doesn't mean she's uncomfortable. Some boys don't like Barbies. Some girls don't like Barbies. A lot of women hate Barbie so why should they be forced on uninterested boys? OP predicted that someone like you would come along to derail the thread and she was correct.

+1, I'm the parent of only girls and OP's post helped me to understand what she was looking for and made it easy for me to suggest gender neutral play sets that her son might be interested in, understanding that if a child says they don't want to play with a certain gendered toy, there is very little you as a parent can do even if you want to. They don't want to.

One of my DDs will only play with certain toys of they are pink. We never had gendered toys in our house when the girls are little, and her older sister has no such hang up. But younger DD will only play with trucks, for instance, if they are pink. Or in a pinch, purple. If you hand her a green truck, she'll hadn't it back and explain "oh this is a boys' toy." I'm guessing this is something she picked up at daycare and it just stuck with her. We have told her a million times that colors aren't just for boys or girls, and she will, reasonably, point out that she doesn't know any boys who wear pink or play with pink toys. Because they don't.

So we just buy her pink stuff and call it a day.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

What are you worried about if a boy doesn't want to play with a doll? Does he need intensive therapy? It's ok for boys to not want to play with dolls and it's ok for girls to play dress up and pretend to shop with their dolls.

And the opposite is also true. OP's shouting the word BOY in the middle of her post made it clear that she's not comfortable with the opposite.

If she had said "he isn't interested in Barbies" that would have been fine.

For my kids who weren't into Barbie (boys and girls), I think rescue heroes were the toys that came closest to Barbie in the kind of play (narrative play with multiple small figures), and hotwheels and Thomas were the things that came closest to collecting piece. For those of my kids (boys and girls) who do like Barbie the same toy filled both those niches -- something to collect, and something to play with narratively.

No, it really doesn't mean she's uncomfortable. Some boys don't like Barbies. Some girls don't like Barbies. A lot of women hate Barbie so why should they be forced on uninterested boys? OP predicted that someone like you would come along to derail the thread and she was correct.

If OP had said "my son doesn't like Barbies" then no one would have come along. If she'd said "my son doesn't like Barbies because he is a typical boy" I wouldn't have come along, but her use of capitalization was weird, and kind of offensive. She asked for it.

Don't forget the OP has also called posters who buy their sons doll houses "men hating lesbians".

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Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

lol what are you afraid of?
He might turn gay if he touches a female doll?

What are you worried about if a boy doesn't want to play with a doll? Does he need intensive therapy? It's ok for boys to not want to play with dolls and it's ok for girls to play dress up and pretend to shop with their dolls.

And the opposite is also true. OP's shouting the word BOY in the middle of her post made it clear that she's not comfortable with the opposite.

If she had said "he isn't interested in Barbies" that would have been fine.

For my kids who weren't into Barbie (boys and girls), I think rescue heroes were the toys that came closest to Barbie in the kind of play (narrative play with multiple small figures), and hotwheels and Thomas were the things that came closest to collecting piece. For those of my kids (boys and girls) who do like Barbie the same toy filled both those niches -- something to collect, and something to play with narratively.

No, it really doesn't mean she's uncomfortable. Some boys don't like Barbies. Some girls don't like Barbies. A lot of women hate Barbie so why should they be forced on uninterested boys? OP predicted that someone like you would come along to derail the thread and she was correct.

If OP had said "my son doesn't like Barbies" then no one would have come along. If she'd said "my son doesn't like Barbies because he is a typical boy" I wouldn't have come along, but her use of capitalization was weird, and kind of offensive. She asked for it.

The word boy is offensive to you? That's your first problem.

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Not sure if anyone already mentioned this, but we had PJ Masks EVERYTHING - HQ (aka doll house), cars, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:How about stuffies/ dolls that's what my son uses. And yes boys can have dill houses, little people playset and play mobiles playset. It does boys a HUGE disservice in their play skills and social skills to not let them play pretend because of weird stigma.

When my daughter plays with her dolls, she’s a mommy with a baby or her Barbies are friends going shopping. But when my son plays with his Legos or stuffies or pretty much any toys, someone is getting killed and the police/military have to come in. It’s definitely a creative outlet, but a very violent one. In his real life interactions, he’s the sweetest little boy, but someone always has to die and or get arrested when he’s playing with his toys.

Are you joking? Is that because your child has only army men and ninja toys to play with? If this happens when your child plays with doll house, farm or school little people set the play themes should not skew to murder and violence. If it does that is absolutely not normal. What does your child watch on TV?

Ah, leave it to the experts of DCUM to call out perfectly normal childhood behavior as abnormal. My child exclusively watches PBS cartoons and occasionally the news. His toys are the aforementioned Legos and stuffed animals. He used to make guns out of pencils until I bought him a nerf gun. He sometimes takes his sister’s dolls as prisoner. One of her dolls is an evil mass murderer according to him. In other words, he likes to play many variations of cops and robbers.

It’s totally normal role playing for little boys according to my child psychiatrist sister. Where did you get your MD/PhD?

But I’m sorry to disappoint you that he isn’t a gender confused little boy who wants to wear princess dresses and do makeovers on his sister’s dolls. That you’d probably be a-okay with.

PP I'm sorry, but that is not normal behavior. I'm not a psychologist, but am an early childhood specialist who and evaluates children for a living. Boys aren't inherently violent here at cause they are boys. Maybe cut back on the news. Really I think you should be a bit more concerned.

No one said the boy was violent. You just made that up. If you can't distinguish fiction from reality, you don't belong in a role caring for children.

You don't think pretending to be a mass murderer is violent?

Omg, you are really dumb. I’m the mom of the “violent” boy. He’s not pretending to be a mass murderer. His Lego police officers apprehend and arrest the doll and bring her back to the Lego police station, where she is then tried in court. It’s completely normal creative play for a 6 year old boy.

You are not an early childhood specialist. Otherwise, you’d know that elementary school age boys like to roughhouse and play cops and robbers and other “aggressive” games. It’s not societal. It’s inherent to their natures. And it’s unhealthy to try to curb their rough creative play.


You’ve obviously never read any literature on the subject, so stop pretending you’re an any early childhood specialist. Yeah right.

Here’s an article I suggested googled, with actual specialists sharing their studies:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bring-it-boys-may-benefit-aggressive-play-flna1c9477173

It might be a better starting point for you to understand the basics of boyhood creative okay.

You’re also clearly not a mom of boys, otherwise you’d have seen your sons and their friends doing something similar. So why are you on here with your opinions about boy friendly creative toys?

Your misandry is gross.

Np I would hope you correct him. Most men are mass murderers, not women so it is more likely Ken would be locked up not Barbie.

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Anonymous wrote:Does this exist? My four year old gets lost in playing pretend with inanimate objects that he makes into characters. Are there doll houses/dolls/figurines for boys?

He's a BOY and likes traditionally boy things (i.e. his story lines are superheroes, firefighters, PJ Masks saving the day, etc.), so please don't suggest getting him actual Barbies. I know how DCUM gets lol.

yes come on the site to start a thread only to insult the people you are asking.
Classic dcum

I post here all the time and agree with OP -- I know how DCUM gets. I think it was smart to clarify that Barbie was a no go because otherwise people would absolutely have just gotten into a debate about house OP should force her son to play with Barbies.

Oh please. People are not going to find out where you live and force your son to play Barbie.

Shocker: not all girls play with Barbie/dolls. I didn't abd neither did my girls.