Posted: May 26, 2011 5:26 am
Depends on how the parents respond to input from the child and how hard the parents try to suppress the child's own discovery of gender. Do you provide toys or games which are chosen preferentially by both genders or no toys or games which can be seen as gender oriented?
I'm not saying girls should be given dolls and boys cars, but kids often express firm opinions on which objects they want to interact with, and you can see gender roles is some of it. I could never stop my son from finding and carrying sticks, a behaviour I haven't seen with girls.
I'm not saying girls should be given dolls and boys cars, but kids often express firm opinions on which objects they want to interact with, and you can see gender roles is some of it. I could never stop my son from finding and carrying sticks, a behaviour I haven't seen with girls.