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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boys (and girls) like toys that move.  Trains and cars are on wheels and they move much easier than pushing blocks or dolls around.  You can push them by holding on and rolling or you can push and it will keep going.  Add in the fact that many adults teach them to make noises (choo choo! or vroom vroom! or beep beep!, etc) and you get a lot of sensory input and learn gross and fine motor skills.  [b]For my boys, they also love shopping carts to push around and will push cardboard boxes around on slick floor surfaces for the same reasons[/b].[/quote]

Yes, my 20mo will push anything around. If I leave a cardboard box, he pushes it. Currently, it's a plastic bin that I haven't yet put to use; He has some big trucks that he bends over and pushes through the house too.

Just today my husband said "it's uncanny. I was really interested in cars and truck when I was a kid too." And I said "aren't all boys?" I don't know. All I know is, once ds discovered he liked toy cars, things became much easier for me because it occupies big chunks of his time :)[/quote]

All 3 kids, including DD, pushed things around. DD is 2.5 and still does. We have a shopping cart and a toy doll stroller and if those aren't available she'll use a child sized chair to cart things around.

DD plays fairly equally with the "boy" toys and the "girl" toys. Our boys did too. Differences were more personal preferences and interests then gender. [/quote]

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