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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this goes in this forum or the family one. Anyway:

We have one kid -- a 10 month old girl. MIL, who lives 2,000 miles away (and so only visits a few times a year) has sons and grandsons, and so she was super psyched to "finally" have a girl in the family. We are trying to raise our daughter so that she knows she can express herself in any way she wants. Even though she doesn't know what's going on right now, we're trying to start that off by buying her toys without regard for whether they're marketed for boys or girls (so she has dolls, cars, a dump truck, etc) and we've bought her clothes from the "boys" and "girls" section.

My MIL is always telling us to "dress her like a girl." She's visiting now and I brought DD down after a nap in a dress. Earlier in the day I had her in shorts and a t-shirt. MIL said, "oh good! now she looks like a girl." I didn't acknowledge the comment.

My question is: when do we say something, if ever? Obviously our daughter has no idea what's going on, but I don't want her to feel like her grandma is judging her, especially if she turns out to be less interested in stereotypically girly things. [/quote]

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