Now many parents, due to work reasons, send their children to kindergarten after they are slightly older, of course, the main intention is to hope that their children will get a correct education in kindergarten.
Therefore, choosing a kindergarten with a good learning and living environment has become a big problem.
Xiao Zhang has recently been worried about his child's kindergarten. Originally, after many comparisons, a bilingual kindergarten had been selected for my son, but the problem was found within a few days of schooling.
One day, the teacher mistakenly sent the photo of the child going to the toilet to the group, although the second was withdrawn, but some sharp-eyed parents clearly saw from the photos that the toilet was gender-neutral.
Parents were extremely dissatisfied with this mixed way of going to the toilet with men and women, and they shouted to leave the kindergarten.
Some people think that kindergarten children are still young, have no gender awareness, and there is no problem in mixing with the toilet, it is really not OK, and it is possible to separate each toilet with a partition.
This attitude of indifference is very undesirable, which will have a negative impact on the physical and mental growth of children and blur gender awareness.
When did children start to have gender awareness?
Around the age of 3, children will begin to develop gender awareness, but this time is only the embryonic stage, and the real formation is after puberty. The intermediate period, which can be called the "incubation period", is the best time to educate children.
Cultivating children's gender awareness should be grasped from an early age, and parents can do this
1. Pick the right clothes
In the public perception, girls wear more skirts and boys wear pants.
Parents can choose the right clothes for their children from a small age, and girls wear skirts more to experience the softness of the skirt swaying with the wind;
Boys wear straight, simple pants, which is conducive to developing a frank and decisive masculinity.
2. Use color to make children gender-aware
Girls can arrange more cute and playful items such as pink and red around them; boys can have more black, gray and other items around them.
Of course, this is only the collocation of male and female colors in most cases, without deliberately making children like a certain color, the main purpose is to let them understand the gender difference through color.
3. Try to buy toys that meet gender characteristics
Buy your child toys that match their gender. For example, girls buy dolls, beads and other toys, and boys can play with cars, robots, etc.
Over time, their gender awareness will be strengthened, and children will accept their own personality settings and actively look for things that match their gender.
4. Give your child a haircut
Girls can have long hair, and long hair can make them feel the unique beauty of girls. Boys should have short hair to highlight the capable and spirited temperament of the body.
Through the design of the hairstyle, children can feel the difference between themselves and the opposite sex.
5. Exercise for children
Boys can do more challenging sports, such as climbing, basketball, etc., can cultivate strong perseverance and character that is not afraid of difficulties;
Girls can learn dance, gymnastics and other sports, and exercise a gentle and peaceful temperament.
The significance of cultivating children's gender awareness lies in these two points
1. Enhance self-identification
With gender awareness, children can know how they are different from others.
Although gender equality is now advocated, but the sense of self-identity is still very necessary, if you can't even recognize yourself, how to know others and the world?
2. Respect the opposite sex
Children must not only know themselves, but also understand the opposite sex. Gender awareness is not strong, children may not be able to draw clear boundaries, or even despise people who are different from their own gender.
Parents should teach their children to distinguish between genders and respect the opposite sex.
Parents must pay attention to gender education and not ignore this issue because of embarrassment or difficulty in speaking. Once the child has the awareness of "gender misalignment", it is difficult to correct it.