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Essay / Essay on Jean Piaget - 1098
However, the images illustrate that girls “like dresses” and pink toys while boys like active toys, such as balloons. Most of the toys in this store seem to prepare girls to become princesses and boys to become athletes. On the other hand, there is a miscellaneous section that offers gender-neutral toys for an age group of children from 3 to 7 years old; these toys had kitchen utensils, medical sets, and farming sets. Subsequently, it can be said that some of these gender-neutral toys could prepare children for roles as farmers, doctors and chefs. This gender-neutral toy section seemed to be randomly placed in the middle of the store, and the only other gender-neutral section seemed to be in the 1-5 age range. I haven’t seen an “attraction strategy” for these gender-neutral toys. For this diverse section, it seems to be more of a child's predisposition, for example, a child who loves horses might be attracted to the non-sexist agricultural environment. For ages 1-5, the attraction would be the sounds, touches and movements of the toy. In this TOYS R US it seemed