Quote Originally Posted by pyrandon
Quote Originally Posted by RPMiller
My personal experience with my kids, one boy, one girl, is that there is some hard wiring of gender. My wife and I made a conscious effort to not treat either of them as a specific gender and allow them to play with whatever toys they wanted.

With only a few exceptions when they were with a sitter or relative we adhered to this rule and I have to say that before my son or daughter were old enough to appreciate marketing they were both very much a boy and a girl.

We actually found that very enlightening. Of course this wasn't a completely scientific study, but it seemed fairly conclusive to me.
That is my exact same experience, too, Rob.
Ditto. I have B/G twins and even though we always tried to treat them the same and provided the same toys/books/games, etc, they manifested what would be called stereotypical gender preferences.

-Rob A>