Old fashioned viewpoint?
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So what do you do with half term? Despite the children seemingly only just returning to school, its half term again and if you are anything like me, feel the need to become Entertainments Manager for the week?
We have allsorts of activities planned from arts, crafts, games, designing (and I am hoping we might be able to throw a little bit of shopping in there too).
All children are different, boys seem to want to play games and do experiments, while girls are happy with colouring cards and accessories. Or is this a classic generalisation? Is this an old fashioned viewpoint and am I being unfair?
I remember from my childhood that my brother played with his "Masters of the Universe", while I played with "Barbie" and "Sindy" (Sindy has the same colour hair as me so she was my favourite"). Did my mom encourage that or did we merely choose the toys we wanted to play with?
What do you do with your children? Is it merchadising and advertising that defines what we want and like? Or is it just part of being a boy or a girl?
Whatever it is, there is a definate penchant for glue and glitter in our house, so this half term we will be handcrafting cards, customising gifts for the family but will probably be kicking a ball around in the leaves too!
Who cares if football is for boys ..... maybe I am not so old fashioned after all?
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