My nephews (ages 3 and 4) were playing with two of my nieces dolls this morning while the breakfast muffins were baking. When my niece (age 1.5) plays with her dolls, she likes to take their clothes off and put them back on (or more likely, have a grown-up do that for her), push them around in the doll stroller, put them in and out of the doll high chair, and feed them from her empty bottle.
By contrast, here's how my nephews were playing with the dolls:
"My baby is sick again! I have to take her to the doctor. Ok, she's back from the doctor now. Time to put her in this suitcase!"
"My baby came back from the doctor too and she's all cut up in little pieces."
(Later)
"Now a pterodactyl is coming down and attacking my baby."
"Oh yeah, and now the baby is climbing into the pterodactyl's mouth and eating its eyeballs." (Hysterical laughter ensues.)
Makes you wonder about that nature versus nurture argument, doesn't it?
3 comments:
Oh gosh! I love it!
There are SO MANY times I've seen nature in my kiddos. Especially Syd. I tried so hard to give her tool sets and super hero outfits. And she play with her tools like they're babies and puts crowns on along with her super hero outfits. She's a girl through and through.
Thanks so much for writing this because I was reading about this in a book....Makes me a little annoyed but it is true.
But the best part of this whole thing is that pterodactyls should be afraid of 'humans' eating their eyes.
Man, those kids are cute! Whose are they anyway? I should get some.
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