Call me what you want... That's just funny as hell to me.

Good answer.

There's wisdom here Grasshopper.

We had one because my daughter asked for it, and my son has played with it some. It's funny, we give them every opportunity to pick toys that aren't gender-traditional and my daughter plays with My Little Pony and coloring and my son picks Matchbox Cars and Thomas the Train. My daughter wants to cuddle on the couch and watch Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters and my son wants to be pinned to the floor and tickled.

:shrug:

It's a freaking play toy not a recipe book.
It aint going to teach him to cook.

It's the same as buying a little girl a little tykes lawn mower.

Yeah, good point. But I still don't see it as a problem.

Not all that big of a deal to me. I think that if they learn the "girly" toys are for girls things on their own it is a little better for them then if they are pigeon holed into it before they understand it.

I would probably gently advise them not to take thier polly pocket (not that they have one, just an example) to kindergarden with them, and will probably try to help keep them from being ridiculed by preparing them with knowing that other boys would probably tease them about it. My son is 5 and he liked playing with littlest pet shop, mostly because it wasn't lik anyhing he had already. We had kitchen type stuff for a long time so he has lost interest in that kind of stuff long ago. We gave him littlest pet shop stuff and he played a lot with it at first, but he played with it like a boy...treated them like pets and made them fall from imginary cliffs, rescued by a power ranger, etc.

He understands the idea of girl toys, but still sees some stuff that he says he thing looks cool, but also follows up with "but I know that is a girl toy".

If he expressed an interest in it, yes.

I always suspected Phobia was a little swishy.

I guess we won't know until his first word is Faabb-yoooo-lussss!!!!!

BAM! You heard of that millionaire chef, named Emeril, with his own food program?

Or how 'bout Bobby Flay? He owns several restaurants. One is the very succesful Mesa Grill in NYC.

You call that ghey?

you muista missed posts 2 and 3. :p

My daughter like Barbies, Princesses and Power Rangers. She likes to watch football with daddy and wear her Chiefs jersey and she knows all the NFL logos. She likes to play tea party with her mom. She has a play tool set and a play kitchen. She is four, it's all good.

Look at it this way.. if he gets a little tykes kitchen he can tell his toddler girlfriend to get into the kitchen and make him a sandwich!

Well for that matter... would you buy your male a Barbie doll? There's no difference.

Toys ARE mostly gender specific.
If you want to buy your kid a kitchen set. Do it, it's just funny to me.