Accroding to Helen Brown author of Parenting for Dummies: "Teeny-tiny, just-been-born babies don’t need toys: they can’t hold anything and they can’t see much. But roll forward even a few weeks, and ...

Toys that were gendered tended to focus on occupations the child might have in the future - baby dolls for girls, or building blocks for boys. But by the 1990s, things started to shift ...