Watched this little girl putting stickers in her giant sticker book with pre-laid out pages on the subway just now. There were three bodies on the page, a white girl, a black girl, and a brown girl and the page was empty. She picked out a dress sticker and put it on the black doll. It was interesting to see her make this choice without any pushing from her mother and to think of what might be going through her head as she chose which figure to dress.
Do you remember playing with dolls when you were younger? Were they the same color as you? Did you have the option to play with dolls that were of different skin colors? How might variations of exposure affect the development of a child?
I was also thinking about her sticker book in that it confines her to specific body shapes of the dolls and a limited selection of clothing. From my view most of the clothing were floral prints and some kind of dress or shirt & skirt attire. What kind of messages is this imposing on the girl at such a young age?
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