Games children play

SIR – Diana Jones (Letters, June 20) is right that boys and girls perceive things very differently.

When my children were toddlers, they found an old china tea set in their grandparents’ loft.

My daughter set it out neatly on the floor and pretended to pour tea into the cups. Her brother used the milk jug to collect as many dead insects as he could find and lined them up on the window sill in his bedroom. Jo Marchington

Ashtead, Surrey

SIR – My wife and I decided when we first had children that we would not follow the traditional route of buying gender-specific toys for our children. Consequently our daughter was not given dolls, nor our son toy guns.

Our daughter became a Norland Nanny. When given his first Lego kit, our son produced a very realistic assault rifle within an hour or so. He is now a major with the Army, and has served in Afghanistan. Paul Rutherford

Alresford, Hampshire