{"id":1073,"date":"2008-08-22T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2008-08-22T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T19:13:14","slug":"before-we-forget-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Before we forget – August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forever and a day aog, I worked at a large, independent\u00a0toy store.\u00a0 For much longer than I would like to admit.\u00a0 But, at the time, I loved it.\u00a0 It was SO me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But while there, I used to think about boys and girls and whether or not our toy choices for them influenced the way they played or what they wanted to play with.\u00a0 Why was the girls section glaringly pink?\u00a0 Why was the boy’s across the store from the girl’s where there could there be no mixing of toys, with only board games, Crayloa\u00a0or bikes in between them?\u00a0 Should little kids toys not be fun for boys AND girls?<\/p>\n

And then I had a daughter.\u00a0 And we dressed her in pink – all the time.\u00a0 And we bought her cute girly toys.\u00a0 And pink blankets.\u00a0 And pink soothers.\u00a0 I didn’t realize I was doing it, but this is how it was.\u00a0 And often still is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But as she got older, the toys became more and more gender neutral.\u00a0 They were learning toys and books and they weren’t really geared towards boys or girls.\u00a0 And then someone bought Jaia a doll around her first birthday, and it was all over.\u00a0 She was in love.\u00a0 It became her favourite toy, one she wants around AT ALL TIMES.<\/p>\n

So…now I wonder if our early pink invasion caused it, or if girls really are maternal by nature.\u00a0 I’m thinking the latter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Forever and a day aog, I worked at a large, independent\u00a0toy store.\u00a0 For much longer than I would like to admit.\u00a0 But, at the time, I loved it.\u00a0 It was SO me.\u00a0 But while there, I used to think about boys and girls and whether or not our toy choices for them influenced the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}