Recently, we took Gavin over to his godsister’s house where Gavin had a field day with her masak masak (read: cooking) toys and play kitchen.  Knowing that Daddy wouldn’t like this, I made an attempt to get Gavin away from the toy stove. I brought out some blocks and tried to get Gavin interested in building blocks instead. Sad to say that the blocks lost out to the masak masak set, the latter being clearly more interesting to Gavin.

“Not to worry,” said PL.  “He probably likes it because it’s new and he’s never seen it before.”

Well, we can only hope so…

But here’s the irony.  When Gavin was younger, hubby and I used to take him to the toy shop.  Whenever we came across a masak masak set or any toys related to household care (such as toy cooking sets, ironing boards, vacum cleaners, etc.) hubby would say, “Move along!  My son’s not playing with these toys!”

At home, Gavin loves the kitchen.  He loves to watch Ah Mah cook and he likes to “help” my SIL bake bread.  Since lots of children are fascinated by the kitchen because of all the activity in there, there’s really nothing to worry about, right?  Well, he also likes hairbands and bangles and pink stuff!  Okay, maybe he likes pink because the colour is bright - all kids love bright colours.  As for the hairbands, well, they’re interesting and so are the bangles.  He’ll grow out of it, won’t he?

The hubby reckons this is the result of me hoping too hard for a girl when I was pregnant with Gavin, although my BFF has another theory.  During my pregnancy, she mentioned a book or article (I can’t remember which) that she had read which said that mothers who had stressful pregnancies were more likely to deliver boys who are gay - at least I think that was the gist of it.  In the effort to preserve the peace, I shan’t extrapolate further, but there’s food for thought, wouldn’t you think?

Personally, though, I think if the hubby just relaxed and stopped worrying about his son liking girls’ stuff and girls’ colours, it will all eventually go away as Gavin grows older.  The more fuss made of it, the more Gavin will get curious as to why Daddy says, “no”, and the more he’s going to do the things Daddy doesn’t want him to do.

Already I can see a rather defiant streak coming out in my son.  For instance, when I ask him which pair of shoes he wants to wear and he won’t give me an answer, I’ll simply pick a pair.  As if he has to have the last say, Gavin will then indicate he wants to wear the other pair of shoes. 

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