Monday, May 9, 2011
Socializing Gender
Gender is certainly something that is taught (nurture). But I think as much as parents would like to influence their boys to do boy activities and girls to do girl activities, or even keeping activities as gender neutral as possible, the outside world gets in the way. Take my idea to keep my kids away from guns (play) and violence. I soon had to let that one go because, perhaps because we are part of the military community, no matter where my kids went, other boys were playing with toy guns. TV and school, alike, either reinterate or undo what parents teach their children.
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Yes we can't escape the socialization of gender because it is wired into every aspect of our society. Hard as we try to raise our kids without a gender bias they experience a different situation outside. However I think the values we ingrain in them at home will still prevail to some extent.
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