Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Are you slow? How can a boy who lives with a girl who obviously plays with dolls and Barbies not have those toys also available to play with? Boys and girls are different. Which is why people need to "transition" from one to the other. Otherwise it wouldn't be necessary. Boys and girls don't play with toys in exactly the same way, this is known.

Cars - they can talk for the car

Imaginext used to be Fisher Prices next step after little people.

The castle and pirate ship were played with for hours in my house.
Unfortunately Fisher Price moved to brand all of this line with DC Comics (Batman) but if you can find these sets they are worth every penny.
My sons also did blocks / playmobile combo - more so than the "Everyday Hero" Firehouse from kidcraft - but each kid plays differently.

The various Paw Patrol sets for sure. My kids (both boys) have a whole drawer full of “mans” which is basically every small plastic figurine known to man. They have Paw Patrols, a Daniel Tiger set, Little People, a Blues Clues set, a bunch of Pokémon, some various small figurines from fast food places, you name it. They can go in any kind of small houses or just wherever. The Little People buildings are great for it. They make structures out of Duplos for them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is this really that hard to figure out?

Anonymous wrote:

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?

There is an entire aisle dedicated to this in every toy store. Imaginez, Playmobil, lego, little people, every popular cartoon,etc etc. Heck there are bigger sizes than Barbie.

Agree about Playmobil. My kids had amazing, flexible playtime with Playmobil.

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.

Anonymous wrote:My son is obsessed with little green army men and all kinds of military vehicles. Jets, tanks, boats, etc. He stages little battle scenes. His older brother was never into playing with these kinds of toys he was into construction vehicles for awhile though.

Yes! I got my kid a package of green army men and was surprised how much he played with them. He's in 6th grade now and still periodically sets them up on his shelves with his prized Lego builds or military vehicle toys as a "display."

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.

Anonymous wrote:Playmobil

This.

Anonymous wrote:For my brother it was GI Joe, army men, and Stretch Armstrong to my Barbie, then he also had little star wars figurines.

At four, my boys had everything from Octonauts, Thomas the Tank Engine characters (they didn't care that they weren't human figures, they treated them as people), dinosaurs, a castle house with various knights, kings, etc.

They grew into Marvel characters, Star Wars figures, super heroes, transformers, etc.

Of course they treat them as people. If the kids watched any of the videos, the videos anthropomorphize the trains. They talk and have feelings and they get into very human situations. So, of course, the kids think of them as people. Same with the animals like Paw Patrol, TMNT, Duck Tales, Octonauts, Wonder Pets, etc.

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.

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.