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From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Precocious Brand Loyalty
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 11:25:55 EDT
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In article <365@scirtp.UUCP> todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones) writes:

>WHAT'S A FATHER TO DO????????????????????????
>
>So why is he exhibiting staunch brand loyalties at age 4?
>He insists on "Wrangler" brand jeans, because "Dad, you
>can do adventure in them." I've tried reasoning with him,

We have a similar, but different (surprising, eh), "problem" at our
house.  Our 4 1/2 year old daughter insists that little girls wear
dresses.  This is despite a *very* concerted effort on her parents
part not to do any sexual conditioning  (we read several 'How to Raise
your child in a non-sexist enviroment' books and tried to follow their
advice).  This is not a big problem, we rarely make any mention of it
to her - except when wearing pants is truly preferrable, thank goodness
she feels any type of shorts are acceptable |-).

Katie also plays a lot with "female paraphanelia" (purses, combs & mirrors)
and loves to play dress-up.  We are quite surprised by all of this, and are
wondering why.  Of course we want a nice concise explanation |-).  I think
that one major factor is that Katie's mom and I are no longer married, and
this is one of her compensatory behaviours.

Any thoughts?

Peter B