Young Girls And Their Traditional Dolls’ Prams

Do you have a young girl in your life? Say a young daughter or a young niece? If she is between about five and ten years of age? If you are wondering what you can buy a little girl of this age as a gift, then perhaps I can help you out with a couple of tips

Does she like playing with dolls? Then I am willing to bet that she would want a doll’s pram. Young girls like to imitate their mums and the mothers that they see on the street. They like to walk with their friends, pushing their dolls in their prams around the backyard.

Some people say that this is a bad thing to encourage, but despite trying to discourage parents from purchasing stereotypical toys for boys and, especially, girls for thirty or forty years, young girls still like to play with dolls and doll’s prams, Wendy Houses and toy tea sets..

Those young girls from the Seventies and Eighties are now in their thirties and forties, lots of them are feminists too, so the experience of playing with dolls and dolls’ prams and other customary girls’ toys does not appear to have done them any harm.

In fact, I think that it is much healthier for girls to play with dolls than it is for boys to playat being soldiers or cowboys wielding toy guns, although even that probably does not do any harm. Boys have probably been playing with toy guns, toy bows and arrows or even toy spears for thousands of years.

And I dare say that young girls have been playing with dolls and giving them tea parties for just as long as well. While I was in infants’ school fifty years ago, our class had a Wendy House and girls and boys played in there together, although it was more for the girls – I do remember thinking that.

Traditional girls’ presents like dolls, dolls’ prams, Wendy Houses and toy tea sets sort of went out of fashion in the West in the last twenty-five years of the Twentieth Century, but they are back again now. These conventional girls’ toys can be seen in all the toys catalogues and toy stores such as Toys R Us.

They seem to be a lot cheaper now than they used to be as well, unless you want a dolls’ pram from one of the long-established pram manufacturers like Silver Cross. Silver Cross dolls’ prams are beautifully made displaying all the attention to detail and quality that they put into their full-size prams, which were ‘By Appointment to His and Her Royal Highnesses’ the kings and queens of the United Kingdom from about the mid 1930′s to the mid-1980′s.

Who knows, maybe they will be appointed again when the next royal baby arrives. At the moment Silver Cross, which has outlets all around the world and on the Internet, is also giving away a classic rag doll with each purchase of one of their perambulators.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now involved with Silver Cross Dolls Prams. If you would like to know more, please go over to our website at Doll Prams.