: Identify and Discuss the Specific Ways Parents Socialize Children Along Gender Lines.
Identify and discuss the specific ways parents socialize children along gender lines.
Children beginning to recognize gender and learn what it means to be a boy or a girl when they was very young. While, parents play a major role to socialize their children along gender lines and help them to develop the sense of female or male of themselves. In general, parents treat their children differently in many ways, such as, clothing, chores, toy and games. Researchers perceived female fetuses were thought of as “graceful and gentle,” whereas the movements of perceived male fetuses were described as “strong” (Stainton, 1985). When asked by researchers to describe their newborns, parents described daughters as delicate, soft, and tiny and sons as strong, big, athletic, and well-coordinated, even though the infants did not differ significantly by sex on measures of weight, length, muscle tone, heartbeat, or reflexes (Rubin et al., 1974; Reid, 1994) Parents dress their children differently. Normally, they always dress their young daughters with frilly dresses and also pink in colour. Boys’ clothing, by and large, is less restrictive than is girls’ clothing. Therefore, boys are encouraged to be more active and aggressive in their play than girls are. Besides this, parents decorate their children’s room differently. Girls’ room always have more pink, floras and pastels, but boys’ room always have more bold colour and animals.
Parents also socialize their children differently with toys and games. Boys had a wide range of toys, such as educational, sports, tools, objects, large and small vehicles. Toys for boys tend to promote outdoor play, exploration, manipulation, construction, invention, and competition. Toys for girls were less varied in type, including dolls, housekeeping objects, and crafts. It promotes mainly indoor activities, encourage creativity, nurturance, and attractiveness. Thus, girls and boys may develop different cognitive and social
Children beginning to recognize gender and learn what it means to be a boy or a girl when they was very young. While, parents play a major role to socialize their children along gender lines and help them to develop the sense of female or male of themselves. In general, parents treat their children differently in many ways, such as, clothing, chores, toy and games. Researchers perceived female fetuses were thought of as “graceful and gentle,” whereas the movements of perceived male fetuses were described as “strong” (Stainton, 1985). When asked by researchers to describe their newborns, parents described daughters as delicate, soft, and tiny and sons as strong, big, athletic, and well-coordinated, even though the infants did not differ significantly by sex on measures of weight, length, muscle tone, heartbeat, or reflexes (Rubin et al., 1974; Reid, 1994) Parents dress their children differently. Normally, they always dress their young daughters with frilly dresses and also pink in colour. Boys’ clothing, by and large, is less restrictive than is girls’ clothing. Therefore, boys are encouraged to be more active and aggressive in their play than girls are. Besides this, parents decorate their children’s room differently. Girls’ room always have more pink, floras and pastels, but boys’ room always have more bold colour and animals.
Parents also socialize their children differently with toys and games. Boys had a wide range of toys, such as educational, sports, tools, objects, large and small vehicles. Toys for boys tend to promote outdoor play, exploration, manipulation, construction, invention, and competition. Toys for girls were less varied in type, including dolls, housekeeping objects, and crafts. It promotes mainly indoor activities, encourage creativity, nurturance, and attractiveness. Thus, girls and boys may develop different cognitive and social