You probably already have many of the toys that the day after tomorrow Santa Claus will deliver to the children, and for what they have asked you in the letters and have thought for them, you feel that you have succeeded in everything. Or maybe not, because it is possible that in the letter of Santa Claus or the Kings your son or daughter has written something that makes you think if it will not be a toy not intended for him or her.
Come on, that many parents to see what their children ask them doubt because a child asks for it and they consider it a girl's toy or because a girl asks for it and they consider it a boy's toy. Well, from the hand of Feminist Illustrated I bring you the most recommended quick guide I've seen to be clear if a toy is a boy or a girl.
If the genitals are not used?
Does it say that if the genitals are not used, it is a toy for both boys and girls? Yes it is. If they are used, you better not give it away to any child, because you will be messing up by giving it a "sex toy" intended for adults. If this is not the case, because no father in his right mind would think of such nonsense, you can rest assured that you will be guessing, no matter how blue or pink the box, the wrapper and what is inside.
Is that my son has asked me for a doll
Well, you give it away. What's wrong? As if he asks you for a toy baby… he still wants to play to be a father or a mother. He still wants a doll because he likes girls. He still wants a doll because his sister has one. He still wants a doll because ... what else is rightIf he asks for it and it is what he loves most, you can give it to him. Only then can he choose from now on what he likes best and what he likes least, because neither boys have to be "macho" nor girls have to be "princesses". Let them be what they want to be.
Is that my daughter has asked me for a soccer ball
Well, he wants to be a footballer or he wants to play football with his father, or he wants ... again, what's the matter. Today's men cook, iron, clean, take care of our babies and do a lot of things that in the toys it seems that only girls can do, and women have jobs too (there is still a lot, but more and more) than before They seemed exclusive to men. Well hey, the most logical thing is that the new ideas, the egalitarian revolution, come from the bottom up, from the smallest to the adults, and not the other way around, which seems that many toys today are organized by sexes on the basis to criteria of decades ago.
My son asks me for "girl's" toys
Like any irresponsible parent, sometimes we go to McDonald's and buy them a children's menu, of which you have to say if your child is a boy or a girl to be given a "boy's" or "girl's" toy. Well, for a long time Guim (3 years old) is asking me for girl toys. Once they gave robots for Barbie's children and things and he asked me to ask: "Robot or Barbie?" Aran said "Robot" and Guim said "Barbie." And from that moment I ask what they give that day and my children choose. Why do I do it? Well, I don't know, because I don't care if they take one or another toy and because I prefer that they be the ones who are making their decisions, with choices polluted by the society around them (ads, magazines, opinion of other children and adults, etc.), but not for his parents.
