What's the boy version of Barbies?

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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.

Why do we need to correct pretend play to make it statistically correct? You realize these are dolls and not real people, right?

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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.

Okay that's your assumption and your wrong on both accounts as I am a mother of boys and do work with children. Why would I lie? If I saw a child only playing how you describe your child does with only themes revolving around murder it would definitely raise some eyebrows. Clearly you are very defensive because something is weird here here or you are troll because what you are writing is absolutely crazy. For example, shooting pencils as guns is not inherent to boys nature.

You’re the troll here. You have clearly never spent any time around any elementary school age boys. Stop lying about it.

Why do I think you’re here? Because you hate men and boys and want all of them to play house with their dolls and magically become lesbian women like you.

Np. Don't we want our sons to be more involved and better fathers/parents? There is nothing wrong with introducing boys to caring for others in their pretend play.

And pp you seem really triggered and aggressive. Dare I say homophobic too?

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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.

Okay that's your assumption and your wrong on both accounts as I am a mother of boys and do work with children. Why would I lie? If I saw a child only playing how you describe your child does with only themes revolving around murder it would definitely raise some eyebrows. Clearly you are very defensive because something is weird here here or you are troll because what you are writing is absolutely crazy. For example, shooting pencils as guns is not inherent to boys nature.

You’re the troll here. You have clearly never spent any time around any elementary school age boys. Stop lying about it.

Why do I think you’re here? Because you hate men and boys and want all of them to play house with their dolls and magically become lesbian women like you.

Np. Don't we want our sons to be more involved and better fathers/parents? There is nothing wrong with introducing boys to caring for others in their pretend play.

And pp you seem really triggered and aggressive. Dare I say homophobic too?

Yes, I am triggered because I love little boys. It’s uneducated, ignorant misandrist opinions like yours that hurt boys and breed violence. Pretend play is just that: PRETEND. It has nothing to do with real life. I didn’t grow up to be a princess just because I played one as a child.

When I was a young woman just starting out in the business world, I hated that sports talk was appropriate cooler talk, but soap operas weren’t. But this is exactly the same bs. Boys like aggressive play. They do it in every society in the world. It is an inherent part of their make up. There are numerous scholarly articles on this topic. They are all in agreement that it’s healthy for boys to play aggressively and unhealthy to try to stop them. (Check out “Bang Bang! Gun Play and Why Children Need It” by Diane Rich or “Aggression in Pretend Play and Aggressive Behavior in the Classroom” by Karla Fahrenheit and Sandra Wuss, which describes how the more aggressively boys play, the less aggressive they are in the classroom and the more empathetic they are to their classmates. Read “‘You Be the Bad Guy:’ A New Role for Teachers in Supporting Children’s Dramatic Play,” which also shows that preventing aggressive play is detrimental to boys. Or can read “Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys.” These are all written by well trained child psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers and educators. They are all in universal agreement on this topic. There’s no dispute or debate.

But who cares about the scientific consensus on the topic? Not when you’ve got your “feelings” about raising better fathers. Maybe your father was a jerk, but mine’s a great guy and you better believe he played Cowboys and Indians. Deal with it.

Also, I’m not homophobic, I just know the type of person who hates men and boys this much.

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We had a knights castle for DS to play with, which he enjoyed. But then he asked for a doll house because he thought the knights would be more comfortable in a regular house. So we bought him a doll house. He used both of them. His toys would play in the castle and go to the house to sleep.

He had some Batman toys that he was gifted that he never played with. He did like tractors, trains, Paw Patrol characters, and the characters that came with the castle.

Ask you son what he wants to play with and get him that.

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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.

No the fact that she had to scream at us that her child was a BOY, as opposed to just saying "he doesn't like Barbies".

We have both female and male kids in our family who don't like Barbies. There's no need for a child to like them. But shouting about it was off.

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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.

No the fact that she had to scream at us that her child was a BOY, as opposed to just saying "he doesn't like Barbies".

We have both female and male kids in our family who don't like Barbies. There's no need for a child to like them. But shouting about it was off.

This is a you problem. What you see as shouting others see as emphasis. The word BOY shouldn't be so triggering for you. Barbies are a stupid toy anyway they can't even stand upright on their won like a GI Joe.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201006114225.htm

Sounds like the child may need some help

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Sounds like the child may need some help

Sounds more like his friends need help.

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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.

wtf