I have made no conscious effort to place gender stereo types on Trent. OK, that's not entirely true. We do buy him boy-oriented toys. But, certainly of all the toys that we've bought him, I'm certain I've done nothing to create within him a specific love of trucks. I've discussed this phenomena with colleagues at work who have had a similar experience. We agree that we may have seen the joy that trucks bring to our sons and reinforced it by buying them truck toys and truck books. But where that original obsession with trucks comes from and why little girls don't seem to have any similar interest in trucks remains one of those mysteries of life.
One of the joys of parenting in the modern age is the amazing amount of freely available highly specific source material available for entertaining, er instructing, the young ones. Some of Trent's favorite youtube videos feature garbage trucks,strip mining, and excavators. One of the other joys is that while I was searching for videos for Trent, I came across this gem for myself.
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