No Such Thing As Mr. Mom

Recently a new toy has come out for children, or should I say, little girls. They are baby Elmo's and friends. They come with blankets and pacifiers. In the commercial advertising them they have little girls playing with them. This explains why little girls grow up knowing how to care for children and what roles to play in the house hold. Girls grow up playing with baby dolls and caring for them and playing house while young boys run around with fake guns and shoot one another. We question why females are still categorized as the ones who should be in the house doing the traditional work there, but this is why. We still only allow our little girls to play with baby dolls and think it's weird if we allow a little boy to do so. If the little boys played with baby dolls like girls did then they too would know how to care for an infant.