and if lily had a little brother...you would hide the penis so she can't see there is a difference with her body?!?!?

Come on...my 2 year old twins already now female different from male and what the parts look like!!! (Boy and Girl Twins) And they also know that it a private area on their bodies that NO ONE is allowed to touch!!! Stop sheltering the child!!! I would rather that the child knows as soon as they are able to talk and communicate!!! This is the reason why children now a days go out and experiment and learn the hard way...because mothers and fathers aren't comfortable enough to sit their children down and educate them about life and the crazy world!!
Your to be the one to beat them to the punch and educate them.

'play' is just that ...

there is no need for anatomically correct 'baby dolls' ... think of the age group that is playing with them.

Age appropriateness ...

I agree play is just play, the kids are too young to deal with this. The parent should decide when to talk to a child about different parts not a toy company!!!

It's simple, if it bothers you dont buy it. Personally I have no issue with it. To me teaching a child the difference between a boy and a girl is not a "big deal."

I do not have children in my home because they are now grown and moved away. I remember that when my daughter asked why I looked different from her( she caught me coming out of the shower when she had to use the toilet) I was not surprised. I just said we would get a book that talks about this question. She said ok and that was that. If you want to know what the batteries were for, the doll needs them to wriggle and make sound effects.

I think this is gross! They dont sell girl dolls with a hole in it. I dont want to shelter my children but i dont want then doing things to a doll either &we all know of cause they will be cause ur incouraging them We are then teaching our small children to "experiment" more and become more sexual& advanced at a earlier age, and i feel there is to much teens having babies as it is,we should not be pushing it on them.
Parents should be teaching their children about body parts not a toy company!!

It is important as parents to teach our children the difference between boys and girls at an early age so that they will think of our body differences as natural, therefore no want to rush right out and find out for themselves. I had a set of correct newborn twins when I was 4 or 5 and they were awesome. I am now in the market for some for my 5 year old girl, and am upset that there isn't more of a selection out there.

What exactly would be the issue with your daughter understanding a boy pees from his penis? Im an RN, & a mother. My daughter, who is now 8, has known since she could talk or notice, that boys & girls are different in many ways, including "that" way. Its not a big deal. Its natural. The less deal you make about it, the less deal it will be to her. Get the doll. We have it, its fine. You cant keep her in the dark forever. Doesnt she notice males dogs? Same thing. Its LIFE!

I agree with the parents who say it is really no big deal to let a child play with an anatomically correct baby doll. The sooner you teach your child about the differences between a male baby and a female baby, the better off your child will be. After all, some children as young as toddlerhood have newborn siblings, so if they can see the private parts on a real baby, then a fake baby is really no different. Genitals are genitals. It's a part of life. I mean, if God didn't want us to have them, He wouldn't have created them, so what's wrong with a child being curious about them on a baby doll? I think it makes sense to put real boy or girl features on a newborn baby doll, because it lets children know that boys have penises and girls have vaginas. I mean, how else would a baby be conceived, and where else would a baby be born? Why the shame and embarrassment?

As a primary school teacher, I can tell you that all kids are interested in differences. And why not ? to that age group, it is just another interesting fact. There is no embarrassment unless adults teach that to them. My two step daughters lived their early years in an entirely female household and when she was 4, the oldest touched the gentials of a neighbours son ( same age ) because it was new to her. No harm done, but how much better it would have been if she could have seen it first on a doll. What is the harm in that ? It is natural and healthy.

Any development books will tell you that children are supposed to understand gender differences by the age of three. Some say earlier. I understand that some parents with girls don't want to worry about the different parts that boys have but I am a Mother of two boys and I love that they have a doll that looks real to them. Girls dolls are missing something to a little boy if they don't understand. If you don't want your children to understand the differences, then don't buy dolls of different genders. But consider this, if you have a girl now and then a little boy when your Daughter is three of four and you are changing your sons diaper and she says "What's that?" or wants to touch it, wouldn't you rather have taught her using a doll that you could educate her with about not touching and gender differences before hand?

i completely agree with colleen. i'm actively looking for an anatomically correct boy doll for my 14 month old daughter to play with because my son is due in december. i plan on practicing changing his diaper and giving him a bath with her, in the hope that when our son arrives, she'll be used to idea of him looking different than she and i do. and even if we weren't having a boy so soon in her life, i'd still want to introduce the idea before she got too much older. kids are curious long before parents realize, it's better if we're the ones who show them and talk to them about it first.

Would you buy a doll that was missing a finger? Or an ear? Why is this any different? Like another mom said, the key to KEEPING your children's innocence is not to hide things from them! That only makes children be MORE curious and think it's MORE of a big deal! You need to TALK to them about it when they are very young, and say it like it's just a part of life and no big deal. Then they will not have a need to go EXPERIMENT or find things out for themselves - a LACK of information is what robs them of their innocence. So if you are a mother who talks to her children about things like this and doesn't make a big deal out of it, then you would see no big deal in having your child play with these dolls. I'm getting one for my son who is about to become a big brother. I think it would be MORE weird for him to have a doll that was supposed to look like his baby brother and was MISSING a body part! Because he is still an innocent child who has had his curiosity satisfied by my matter-of-fact explanations, he would never dream of doing anything to or with this doll besides the normal playing like you would any other doll!