Raising children's gender awareness at the age of three
psychological research, it is pointed out that people have gender awareness around age 3. Song Chongsheng, a psychiatrist in Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, reminds parents that in order to avoid the deviation of the child's personality development, it is best to cultivate the child's gender awareness before the age of 3, such as telling children the difference between boys and girls.
experts point out that children before 3 years of age are not sexless, and after 3 years of age children are gradually aware of "men and women" and start to live with men and women. With a little bit of growth, children will gradually become aware of the dress, behavior and personality characteristics of men and women, and gradually form a psychological gender.
, however, some girls' parents intentionally or unintentionally turn their children's clothes and toys into boys; some boys and girls even wear girls' clothes or pigtails to boys. This can all lead to children's gender awareness, and even the opposite sex to shape their children. As a result, boys like to wear girls' clothes, behave feminine, and grow up like girls, and girls' words and deeds may be masculine. In serious disagreement between psychological character and physiological character, children will have difficulty in identifying their sexual identity.
, therefore, experts remind that children should develop their gender consciousness before they are 3 years old. If a boy is a father, he should play with his children more often; if he is a girl, she should spend more time with her. But we must combine the temperament of children with temperament, and do not have to stereotype the children according to the pattern of strong men and weak women, allowing children to develop their inherent temperament.