The significant majority of male and female subjects reported that their fathers, mothers, babysitters, siblings, and peers would consider their gender-typed play with the toy associated with their own gender as “good” or that it did not necessarily matter, with very few subjects reporting that gender-typed play would be considered “bad.” With regards to the cross-gender-typed play observed, male subjects specifically reported that their fathers would consider cross-gender-typed play “bad” more often than could have been due to mere chance. Consequently, the authors suggested a generalization to preschool-aged males that their discernments of their fathers’ social expectations of cross-gender-typed play might be associated with their choice of toys in a free-play setting, exemplified in the male subjects’ deliberate avoidance of the toy dishes and even frequent statements about their dislike of the toy itself (Raag and Rackliff, 1998). This study expands the results mentioned earlier and observes the effect of learned gender stereotypes regarding play on later early development as toddlers. Being older and more developed in understanding,…