My daughter has SWCAH and is 8 and one half. She never really had interest in baby dolls. Although she always dressed up her stuffed animals and fed them bottles. Go figure. She has every Bratz doll and Barbie accessory that has been made. She also loves to play soccer and basketball, and yet hates football and thinks it is stupid. (I loved to play football as a kid with my brothers) I find her running with the boys on the playground more than the girls. Which I think most of that has to do with three boys she thinks are really "neat". Lately she is now getting away from dolls and getting into the music and clothes like Lisa V.s daughter is. She too insists on wearing her hair long, and making sure everything is perfect that she is wearing and is begging for a bra. She even said the other day, "You know mom, I used to think clothes shopping was boring but now, I LOVE to go." Which in turn my husband had this worried look on his face as he grabbed his wallet. Yep he will now have two of us shopping!  So I can’t say myself CAH has anything to really do with her taste in toys, or activities.

I say that because I had a neighbors that cracked me up. I tell this story here everytime we have this discussion. I had two little neighbor girls next door to me when I was a teen. One never played with a doll, and only played on her go cart terrorizing the neighborhood, played basketball if she wasn’t on her go cart, and made most of the neighborhood boys cry. Her sister was the princess, prissy, pink queen of all. She never played in the dirt, she ALWAYS wore her dress up shoes, and always had her purse under her arm with nails painted with some pink sparkly paint. She was the princess of the neighborhood. They are now both teens. The oldest that was the go cart driver is a beautiful long red haired college girl that is a picture of womanhood. She has a scholarship for playing volleyball and contiues to be a tough player though. So I guess my point is this. Everyone is different. If they want to wear Thomas the Tank panties, I see no harm. It is what they like. I did the same for my daughter. If she wanted a Hot Wheel instead of a doll, I gave her the Hot Wheel. It was a pretty purple one mind you, but it was a Hot Wheel. Why take that away from them? If they like sports, encourage them. I know a mom in my daughter’s school that won’t allow her daughter to enter sports saying it is too boyish. Uh, hello! Hey it could win them a scholarship to a college one day!