Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I love the toddler age, when kids are not so gender bound yet.  We took our younger grandson to the pet store and the toy store, and he loved the pink shopping cart above everything else, even though he'd lingered at the Brio train table for a while.  And the older grandson put on a tutu the other day and said he was princess man.  The whole world is open to them right now, and yet biology closes them in like captives as they get older.  So while they are this young it's fun to see how fluid they are with their play.  Our granddaughter was rambunctious and raced around the house with her best friend, a boy, as a toddler, and yet by school age she settled into dolls and dressup and female friends.  Our younger daughter's best friend was a boy until kindergarten, when after several days of being teased, they never played together again.  I've given each grandson a soft doll, but never seen either play with it.  The younger does have a bath baby I gave him that used to be our granddaughter's for years.  This gender thing is stronger than any of us, and yet, we keep trying to open the doors and let in more light.