I'm pretty relaxed about gender-bending toys with our boys -- Jack has a dollhouse, and I've always secretly hoped that they'll want to play dress up at some point. So I had no problem accepting this girlie Mega Blocks building set from a friend whose daughter outgrew it; it made a cool castle, so who cared if it was pink?
Well, Jack does. I kept trying to get him to build the castle with me, and he kept not wanting to do it, until one day he finally blurted out, Mama, that is for GIRLS. I guess I shouldn't be surprised; I tried to get him to watch Cinderella with me, back when he was barely three and should have been still oblivious to the difference between the sexes. But I couldn't even take the DVD out of the package before Jack nixed it as being a girl movie, not for big guys like him.
And so we build castles out of blocks that come in cheerful primary colors, and this set languished. I could hold onto it for Cole, see if he's more willing to cross the pink divide, but we have enough toys. Too many. This one's gotta go. To the InvisiBox! (I keep saying that whenever I'm rooting out stuff to divest, trying for a debonair Adam West "To the Batcave!" kind of vibe, and then I crack up laughing. I really, really, really need to get out more).
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