Monday, May 13, 2013
Boys vs. Girls--Future Plans
Before I had kids, I thought that each
child was an individual, and didn't believe much in gender
stereotypes in children. Little boys ran and jumped a lot because
that's the kind of games they were taught. Little girls played with
dolls because that was the kind of toys they were given. I thought
that if all kids, regardless of gender, were exposed to the same
things, they would have the same tendencies. Then I spent some time in
the real world of kids and figured out that I was wrong. Possibly
there were some differences between boys and girls. From time to time, I'm going to share
some of my experiences that led me to this conclusion. However, so as
to not bias you, I'm going to let you guess, who are the boys in the
stories and who are the girls.Today's StoryTheo was playing Nintendo with his best friend from kindergarten, Julia. Here is the conversation Julia's mother and I overheard."You know that some day we are going to get married and we'll play this game with our little boy or girl.""We can't play this game with our kids.""Why not?""It only has two controllers."
You decide: Which was Theo and which was Julia?_____________________________________________________________________________In case you're wondering--Julia had future plans for marriage, and Theo had future plans for the video game. (Is anyone else having problems with Blogger's formatting? It's driving me crazy. This post was going to look a lot different, but I can't seem to make it happen.)
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That's too cute. Little girls begin thinking about marriage early, don't they?
ReplyDeleteWhen we heard this conversation, it made us smile. Kids say the darnedest things.
DeleteI really like these posts - I never really realised little girls and little boys were to different.
ReplyDeleteHaving grown up with all sisters, I didn't realize the differences so much until I started observing my own kids.
DeleteSuch a cute story!
ReplyDeleteYou never know what kids are thinking.
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