What is genderless education
Do you know what genderless education is? Parents educate their children without gender influencing them. Find out much more about this.
More and more experts agree that raising children without any gender stereotypes that can influence their future say that this is good for your developing mind. But what does this really mean? Is it good for your child or can it have negative connotations in their development?
More and more people want to raise their children in a neutral upbringing, that is, in a genderless education where they have a neutral gender perspective. Many of us are not even aware of the messages we receive from the moment we are born about who we should or should not simply base ourselves on the sex we were assigned at birth . Gender neutral parenting is trying to change all of that.
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GENDERLESS EDUCATION
There are different types of levels in genderless parenting, and it is usually the parents who choose it. At one extreme we can find parents who do not reveal the sex of their child to anyone and at the other extreme, parents who simply want their children to play and participate in ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ activities or to choose their own style of clothing, according to how they feel most comfortable.
But it is not so easy to educate without gender since there are many parents who think that if they do so, their children would be the victims of ridicule at school for not ‘corresponding’ with a specific gender. They think this could cause you more problems than benefits.
In the society in which we live, without realizing it, we continue to have a very sexist attitude. Even when choosing professional careers, there are still more men in sports and techniques and women in arts and care. The same happens in the extracurricular activities chosen by the boys and girls; boys prefer contact sports like soccer or basketball and girls prefer rhythmic gymnastics or skating. But the good news is that there is progress in gender equality as more and more girls choose extracurricular activities on their own initiative such as soccer and boys such as music or painting.
GENDER NEUTRAL EDUCATION
Genderless education, therefore, is a new way of educating children without the sex they have at birth influencing them in their day-to-day lives. This means that they can choose toys to play with, be it cars or dolls, for example. The same happened for the activities to be carried out or the clothes to be worn, gender should not influence those decisions. It is the need to avoid stereotypes associated with gender and that children have their own personality without this influencing them, without labeling them in any way.
In today’s society, parents act in the education of their children taking their gender into account, usually without their realizing it. It was thought that this is due to the fact that boys and girls (men and women) have a brain difference but in reality there are studies that affirm that both girls and boys show the same interest in their parents or in the activities to be carried out, promoted by their personality and not so much for gender. If they are influenced in activities by gender, it is usually due to a more social issue. Without realizing it, society encourages girls to be more sociable and boys to be more physical.
But there is another side to this coin, and that is that there are also experts who believe that educating children without gender can confuse them. According to some experts, human beings are born with different brains whether it is a boy or a girl, and that is why boys are inclined towards a series of specific games and girls towards another, or for example, girls develop language before the boys. kids. By this they mean that educating children without gender could cause them personality and development problems in the future, generating confusion for them.
In this sense, what really matters is educating children taking into account their personality and their idiosyncrasies, without labels and without treating them differently because of their sex. Simply promoting equality of the sexes and allowing them to choose things according to their personality, without forcing one thing or another.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.
