Parenting Styles for Boys and Girls
With two kids, a girl and a boy, whose ages are so close to each other, I can’t help but notice a huge difference when it comes to the way I parent them. With my boy, I’m more lenient about roughing it. If he wants jump up and down his All Star Sports Bench Seat w/ Storage, I often allow him. But I’m more restrained about these things with my girl, fearing she would hurt herself and cry.
I would often hush my boy when he would start crying, like on instances where he would hurt himself. And his father would sometimes chime in that he has to learn to toughen up and learn to take pain…”like men do”. You wouldn’t hear his father say that to our daughter, though.
I realize that we’ve set up our kids to define the role of how a man or a woman must be, must act and must behave. That’s all fine and dandy, we are teaching kids to follow the norm of society, which should be good for them as they grow older. But what we must also do as parents is to teach kids to become more gender-equal and especially gender-sensitive. And it starts with proper parenting, as how this article has stated it.
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