Hope everyone gets a chance to think about something or someone they love today. Among other things, I'm thinking about how much I love the Lindor dark chocolate truffles that showed up this morning--the breakfast of champions, she says, hoping that a sugar crash doesn't come while she's at work. :)
In honor of Valentine's Day, I rerunning a post from the past when I described one of Wally's Valentine parties at school. It was initially part of a series of posts about girls vs. boys.
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Boys vs. Girls--Wally's Valentine Party
Boys vs. Girls—You Choose
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 the experiences that led me to this conclusion. However, to not bias you, I'm going to let you guess who are the boys in the stories and who are the girls.
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 the experiences that led me to this conclusion. However, 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 Story
The Event: Wally's Third Grade Valentine Party
The Event: Wally's Third Grade Valentine PartyThe Scene: The kids were seated around tables and had naturally grouped themselves into two groups, with all boys on one side and all girls on the other side.
The Action: One group read each Valentine carefully and talked about who liked whom. The other group saw how many Red Hot cinnamon candies they could stuff in their mouth before their mouth burned too much.
You choose: Which group was the boys and which were the girls?
You choose: Which group was the boys and which were the girls?
Enjoy your breakfast!
ReplyDeleteI love the Valentine's tale. It was hard to guess which group was which 😀
It was surprising to me that at such a young age the girls were into relationships while the boys were playing macho with their red hots. But I was naïve.
DeleteDark chocolate truffles .... mmm. I hear dark chocolate has antioxidants. So my line of thinking would be the more you eat, the more antioxidants in your body, right?????
ReplyDeleteI have a son and a daughter and they played together quite well when they were little. My boy would play with the dollhouse .... if it involved pretending the dollhouse was destroyed by fire or dinosaurs. And my daughter would play dinosaurs, but they were always in a family that resembled ours .... mommy, daddy, sister, brother. I know there are exceptions, but I agree that there are definitely innate male vs female tendencies.
My mom loved Red Hots. I don't think I've seen them in the stores in a long time.
Having only boys, I only saw up close and personal their kind of play, and just knew it was very different than what my sisters and I did. However, you had your own little example of boy/girl play at your house that showed real differences. Of course, everyone is an individual, but I do believe that their are different tendencies between boys and girls.
DeleteI love Red Hots, too. You see them sometimes with the movie candy in stores.
My kind of breakfast! I'd eat breakfast every day if I got to eat chocolates! :D
ReplyDeleteInteresting observations about the boys and girls. I didn't grow up with the tradition of observing St. Valentine's Day. When my daughter was required to participate in exchanging cards in preschool, I thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever, but, since every child was supposed to give a card to every other child, we participated. "When in Rome" and all that! :D
I never liked the exchange of cards when my kids were little. Since writing was hard for them and it was tortuous for them to sign and label 30 or 40 cards.
DeleteTruffles sound delicious.
ReplyDeleteThey were.
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