HELP!: Looking for a toy doctor kit for a little girl

[Nikki Stone1]

I want to buy a doctor kit for my little preschool aged niece and I am stumped. Every damned kit I come across is marked for a boy--pictures of boys on the box and on the medical bag itself. Kids this age are already conscious of what colors (blue, pink) are gender marked for them and they understand the photos. I really would like a medical kit either unmarked for gender or marked for a girl.

(Note: I am NOT trying to start a war here. Just looking for a link to a toy. I'm as pissed off as a feminist can be at the gender agenda I see in kids' toys, but this is not the thread for it. I just want to get a present for my niece.)

Thanks,

Nikki

[CoffeeCat]

1. How about this?

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2313177&cp=&f=Taxonomy%2FTRUS%2F2254197&origkw=dr+kit&kw=dr+kit&parentPage=search

I thought this looked pretty good, and nice for a little girl!

What a good aunt you are! :)

[Nikki Stone1]

17. Thanks!

That looks very sweet. I am just so impressed with all the help I got here today. I haven't been toy shopping in years, so it's really nice to have so many great people give me advice!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Ebay search for "medical kit" under toys/hobbies:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fisher-Price-Sesame-Street-Kids-Dr-Medical-Kit-NEW_W0QQitemZ260054179413QQihZ016QQcategoryZ19234QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

http://cgi.ebay.com/FISHER-PRICE-DOCTOR-MEDICAL-KIT-NEW-IN-BOX_W0QQitemZ190054564513QQihZ009QQcategoryZ374QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/FISHER-PRICE-DOCTOR-MEDICAL-KIT-NEW-IN-BOX_W0QQitemZ190054406714QQihZ009QQcategoryZ374QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Last one has a pic of a girl as the doctor on the box, work for you?

[Nikki Stone1]

11. Wow, that last one is a keeper!

Now I just have to figure out how to get it off Ebay. :)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. You make an account with them, and you buy it, either with credit card or PayPal.

[coffeenap]

3. I found this one--doesn't look gendered at all. Good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009XNSY/nextag-toys-20/ref=nosim

[yewberry]

4. Here's one

http://www.liveandlearn.com/doctorkit.html

Seems pretty gender-neutral.

Good luck!

[JVS]

5. Take it out of the box and put it in a crown royal bag

[Nay]

6. Google "Barbie doctor kit" -- there are two, one is the reg kit

you are looking for with a spiffy striped bag and all the accoutrements, and there's also a barbie VET doctor kit as well, with barbie as a vet.

Walmart seems to have both.

[sweetheart]

7. cynically

[BlooInBloo]

22. lol! ouch.

[Nikki Stone1]

8. Bless you all!

I really needed the help today! :hug: :hug: :hug:

[Zhade]

9. Silly, girls can't be doctors.

KIDDING!

Try ebay?

[dubykc]

10. Here ya go...

This one just has a red cross on it, no picture of boys or girls:
http://www.mytwinn.com/genProduct.html/PID/3073399/ctid/17?cpncode=08-16498289-2&srccode=cii_5217346

This one I'm not sure of the picture on the case itself, but you could e-mail them and ask:
http://www.liveandlearn.com/doctorkit.html

Hre are a few listed at Amazon, you shuld be able to find something here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=toys&field-keywords=play%20doctor%20kits&results-process=default&dispatch=search/ref=pd_sl_aw_tops-1_toys_14826611_1&results-process=default?tag2=amd-google-20

Good luck in your search

[Nikki Stone1]

15. That Amazon list is nice. (I only think of Amazon for books--never thought to look there)

Thanks!

[Warpy]

12. I found a few things

Doctor scrubs in PINK: http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_10/602-5359229-2773411?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000FBPW7U
I don't like pink and you might not like pink, but kids have already absorbed that particular color stereotype. They also have the scrubs in realistic green as well as little boy blue.

The kit from Penney's appears to show a boy, but the scrubs and equipment are androgynous green. Oddly enough, their housekeeping toys are gender neutral, with both boys and girls on the packages. They have a pediatrician kit with a girl on the cover (of course). http://www.jcpenney.com/products/C032766.jsp

They don't show the box on this one, but it's helpful the illustration doesn't show a kid: http://www.kaplantoys.com/store/trans/productDetailForm.asp?CatID=1%7C0%7C0&PID=80654&area=zilla&WT.srch=1

This one looks like the kid's lab coat says "Dr. Julie" http://www.lillianvernon.com/catalog/product_display.jsp?pdId=1716 It also may be too advanced for a kid under 4.

Good luck. I think the toys are out there, and maybe a male on the box won't be as toxic as solid blue toys within. I was a little girl who loathed dolls and loved tools and trucks and boy pictures on boxes didn't really influence me much. I knew what I liked, and maybe your niece will, also.

[Nikki Stone1]

16. That last one does say "Dr. Julie" and it's a great kit

But a little old for my niece. I'm bookmarking it for later.

[Deja Q]

14. Why do we, as parents, encourage our children to play 'doctor'?

:yoiks:

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[Wiley50]

20. My Apologies. I know that was totally tasteless

But it was the first thing that I thought of
and I just cracked up.

Try to think of Marc Maron doing that one

[mondo joe]

19. My kids moms are physicians, so they get to play with the real thing.

Or the cast offs anyway.

[Nikki Stone1]

21. That's totally cool!

:D