Why shouldn't little boys play with dolls? Dad blogger explains why he'll be buying his son a toy pram this Christmas

Top of little boys’ wish-lists this Christmas could well be a Superhero dress up, a racing car set and anything Star Wars. But you know equally they could well want a tea-seat, a baby doll and a pram to push that doll around in. And why not?

But though we have been making grounds in the race for gender equality in the toy aisles, eyebrows are often still raised if a little boy chooses to play with something that’s traditionally seen as ‘girlie’.

Not Brad Kearns though. The parenting blogger from New South Wales, Australia wants the world to know that it’s perfectly fine for his son to be getting a toy pram from Father Christmas this year.

The dad-of-two who writes the popular DaDMuM Facebook page, has penned a blog post about why he’s happy to encourage his son, Knox to play with dolls.

“So lately Knox has been playing with a tiny baby doll. He calls it bubba. Absolutely loves it. Pretends it’s his own little baby,” he started the post.

But the blogger went on to say that when his wife suggested buying a toy pram for their son to push his doll around in, he initially “turned his nose up” at the idea.

“Why did I do that? What’s wrong with a little boy having a pram and a baby?” he asked.

“Holy f***… I was literally going against most of the s*** I preach and I didn’t even mean to. I just assumed that a pink toy wasn’t a boys toy.”

Brad went on to say how important it was that boys be taught that parenting is not solely the mother’s job before calling for more gender neutral toy selections.

“No wonder some little boys grow up thinking parenting is a woman’s job,” he wrote.

“We looked at all the prams and they were basically all pink. Most real prams are black…. Why the f*** are toy prams pink?”

“We need to change this s**t! Our little boys and girls need to know its okay to be whatever they want to be.”

The blogger isn’t the first dad to call out the toy industry on their gender discrimination. Earlier this year dad and Politician Joshua Peck called out John Lewis for selling a space themed lunchbox that was labelled as being for boys.

Taking to Twitter to share an image of the label on the navy printed lunchbox, which read: “Boys space print lunchbox”, the dad questioned why the product wasn’t suitable for his little girl.

“Hey @johnlewisretail,” he wrote. “What is it about this lunchbox which makes it unsuitable for my daughter? Too science-y?”

As both dad’s point out, when we’re making such strides towards gender equality in the adult world shouldn’t we be looking to cull discrimination amongst the toys we give our little ones?

What do you think? Should little boys be able to play with dolls? Let us know @YahooStyleUK

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