Reply #1: It's the last frontier. The very toughest, most ingrained stereotypes [View All]

[chimpymustgo]

which, indeed, we learn from infancy.

I dressed my daughter in all kinds of clothes - often shopping in the boy's dept. But I must confess, she was always "cute". with ribbons in her hair, though she might have trucks on her shorts.

Decorating her room: mea culpa. Pink. I love the color. Though now her room is blue, it's still pretty girlified.

That said, we as parents and adults definitely shove so much sh** on our kids, I think it's impossible to discern what is nature and what is nurture. My daughter played with trains and trucks and dolls and stuffed animals - everything. And every little boy who came to the house played with the dolls. Even did hair. Why? Cause they didn't have those toys at home.

I had a friend who turned down a gift of my white rocker with built-in footstool. She was having a boy and thought white furniture was "inappropriate".

Good luck. You will face gender stereotyping at every turn: your friends' homes, your child's school, playground, place of worship. But it looks like you two will give your child the love and the confidence to find his/her own way.

Sorry, I don't have any info (other than anecdotal). BTW, just go to a Toys R Us - notice the "action" aisles, vs the "pink" aisles. I haven't been there in a few years - maybe it's changed. Maybe.