"At issue, then, is not nature or ntruure but how ntruure becomes nature: the environment in which children play and grow can encourage a range of aptitudes or foreclose them. So blithely indulging let alone exploiting stereotypically gendered play patterns may have a more negative long-term impact on kids' potential than parents imagine. And promoting, without forcing, cross-sex friendships as well as a breadth of play styles may be more beneficial. "So: Girls and boys are naturally different, but if we get them young enough, we can beat that out of them and warp their development.I suspect not; try to de-gender their toys and what actually happens is that small girls hold tea parties with the killer dinosaur robots, while small boys conduct bombing raids on the dolls' house.