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STEM Toys for Christmas!

Lisa Miles
On my lunchtime outing from the office and into Stevenage town centre I popped into one of the shops looking for ideas for Christmas presents for my nieces (both 4 now) and I found this 'Build your own Den' kit! ?

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Love the idea of getting them to build their own little houses/towers/castles/shops all while learning how things are constructed and all about the laws of physics and structural integrity etc!  The only pity is that it's kind of gender stereotyped by having just a young boy depicted on the packaging which means that both my nieces will complain that it's a 'boys toy' and 'not for girls' ... ?


So why didn't they think to picture both a boy and a girl on the packaging?  Or maybe they do a 'pink' girls version separately... ?


If you have any other ideas for STEM themed toys to entertain a couple of four year old's over the Holiday season then I'd love to hear them!
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    Absolutely Alasdair and I think therein lies the problem. It's the adults that teach the children gender stereotyping from a very early age by buying into the 'boys toys vs girls toys' train of thinking and doing the blue for boys and pink for girls thing. 


    One of the most heartwarming arguments I've heard was in a shop in town where a young boy (around 9 or 10) was quite taken with a keyring he'd found on the accessories stand in a supermarket while waiting for his mum. It had a large black pom pom on it with some kind of ears so it looked like a cat. He asked his mum if he could have it and she said "No that's for girls not for boys". His quick as a flash response was "But what difference does that make?" 


    I could have hugged him and said "Yes, what difference does that make?" but I'm sure his mum would have not taken kindly to that... ?
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    Absolutely Alasdair and I think therein lies the problem. It's the adults that teach the children gender stereotyping from a very early age by buying into the 'boys toys vs girls toys' train of thinking and doing the blue for boys and pink for girls thing. 


    One of the most heartwarming arguments I've heard was in a shop in town where a young boy (around 9 or 10) was quite taken with a keyring he'd found on the accessories stand in a supermarket while waiting for his mum. It had a large black pom pom on it with some kind of ears so it looked like a cat. He asked his mum if he could have it and she said "No that's for girls not for boys". His quick as a flash response was "But what difference does that make?" 


    I could have hugged him and said "Yes, what difference does that make?" but I'm sure his mum would have not taken kindly to that... ?
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