Hello!

We’ve always been very careful to teach our kids that boys and girls can do the same things and enjoy the same toys, colours, characters, games etc. Our kids have always been very open-minded and happy to play with toys considered appropriate for the opposite sex.

However since they’ve been at kindy and school the level of peer pressure they face from other kids is really quite extreme, and I feel they are slowly being worn down, which makes me so sad. They are constantly being told pink is only for girls, boys like cars and spiderman, girls like jewellery and princesses……

Does anyone have any tips for dealing with this barrage from other kids and countering the sexism kids are being taught so early? I really feel as though the stereotyping and gender conditioning isn’t challenged anywhere near enough by teachers and schools etc too. Would love to hear others’ experiences and thoughts on how to deal with gender stereotyping


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  • Its a hard one, and I know a lot of people will not like my comment but i don’t think gender stereo typing is all that bad, its not the gender stereotyping that is the problem its teaching kids about bullying at a young age that matters. Pink is a girly colour, but that doesn’t mean a boy cant like it, i would never in a million years buy my son a doll but if he picks one up and plays with it i do not say don’t do that its for girls, i don’t buy my daughter toy guns and swords but if she plays with them i dont tell her she cant or shouldn’t because she is a girl. Are kids really that open minded or are we so closed minded that we must make sure our kids play with certain things so we seem politically correct. I think girls in today’s society have become so crude and loud and obnoxious and scantily dressed because of a nonsense notion of feminism that is pushed on them. Its equal rights we should strive for not lets do what boys do and try to be like them. Girls should still be taught to be polite and gentle without being week or stood on. And our sons should be raised as gentleman they need to know that opening doors for people is still acceptable and it is important for some of these boys to know they are allowed to show their masculine side. Too many people are teaching boys to be soft for fear they will be rough, it doesn’t work like that. our kids just need to be taught to be polite not to bully other kids who seam different to themselves, and trust me i know, i have a son who doesn’t fit into any of society’s little boxes and even the school he goes to doesn’t have a label or name for him. you know what i call it… being a boy. I am truly sorry if i offend anybody, like i said its just my opinion.


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