Mom, Dad Parenting Gender Stereotypes Raising Children According to the Williams Institute, which conducts research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy at UCLA, an estimated 111,000 same-gender couples are raising biological, step, or adoptive children in the United States. Individuals in same-gender relationships are often assigned the roles of “mom” and “dad” by society based on who is perceived as the more feminine and more masculine partner, according to a sex and gender study about the division of household labor. As well, lesbian couples are often stereotyped as having a “man” in the relationship.
Poor, but Privileged When Tony Jack started his freshman year at Amherst College in 2003, something seemed off. He looked around and saw a diverse group of students, but unlike him, none seemed poor. They talked about study abroad programs and boarding schools like Andover and Groton. Back at home, in Miami, summer was just a season. “I kept asking myself, am I really the only poor black person here?” The answer was no. Some of his classmates had grown up the way he did — barely making ends meet, the first in their families to go to college — but they had taken part in programs like Prep for Prep and A Better Chance that pluck promising, low-income kids from struggling urban schools and give them funding to attend private high schools. What Jack noticed about these students was that, unlike other poor kids who hadn’t gone to elite schools, they all seemed to be transitioning from high school to college without issue. Jack says about the speech, “She laid it out and made it so personal.
Age versus Gender-role Understanding Gender Equality in the Media: The New Social Movement Artwork by Jessica Bishop; Infographics by Erin Ford “The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one,” says Patricia Mitchell, the former president and CEO of PBS [4]. By the age of 10, a young girl will watch an average of 31 hours of television a week [1] and join other women around the country in comprising 52% of the movie-going population [5]. Unfortunately, the media’s influence on young women has yielded many negative consequences. The media has been associated with causing young girls to have poor body images, exposing them to limited career options, and accepting inferior status to men. Research on Character Representation The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is a research-oriented organization that has drawn national attention to the issue of gender inequality in children’s media. Dr. Through these studies, riveting findings about the extent of gender equality propagated by the film industry have been discovered. Lola Bunny, "Looney Tunes"
Quit Doing These 8 Things for Your Teen This Year if You Want to Raise an Adu... Don’t judge me if you happen to see my kids eating packaged Ritz crackers for school lunch. Don’t judge me if they’re on the sidelines of PE because they forgot their uniform. Don’t judge me if they didn’t turn in their homework because it’s still sitting home on their desk. What some may view as a lack of parenting, is what I deem parenting on purpose, as we work to build necessary life skills in our kids. I stopped making daily breakfasts and packing school lunches long ago. I don’t feel obligated to deliver forgotten items left behind at home. School projects and homework are not any part of my existence. How do we raise competent adults if we’re always doing everything for our kids? Walk away from doing these 8 things for your teen this school year 1. If you are still waking little Johnny up in the mornings, it’s time to let an alarm clock do its job. I heard a Mom actually voice out loud that her teen sons were just so cute still, that she loved going in and waking them up every morning.
Age versus Gender-role Understanding How to Teach Kids about Gender Differences and Equality Are you the type of parent that would get their son a doll and/or give their daughter a truck? If so, I’m guessing you gave already considered the importance of raising the next generation to respect gender differences and value equality. As much as I have tried to nurture certain traditionally “feminine” qualities in my sons such as tolerance and compassion (and given them permission to a full expression of emotions that are often discouraged in boys yet encouraged in girls), I have also tried to allow my daugther access to what may be seen as “boyish” activities like mud stomping and block building. However I also think that if a boy likes trucks and a girl likes dolls, that’s absolutely fine too! There is nothing wrong with dolls or trucks, pink or blue. Parents are probably the most influential models to provide the guidance, media, toys, books and experiences that can influence how children develop and see themselves as well as the world around them. My Body! No Difference Between Us
What Teens Need Most From Their Parents - WSJ The teenage years can be mystifying for parents. Sensible children turn scatter-brained or start having wild mood swings. Formerly level-headed adolescents ride in cars with dangerous drivers or take other foolish risks. A flood of new research offers explanations for some of these mysteries. Brain imaging adds another kind of data that can help test hypotheses and corroborate teens’ own accounts of their behavior and emotions. The new longitudinal research is changing scientists’ views on the role parents play in helping children navigate a volatile decade. Ages 11 to 12 As puberty takes center stage, tweens can actually slip backward in some basic skills. Coaching tweens in organizational skills can help. Parents can help foster sound decision-making, thinking through pros and cons and considering other viewpoints. By remaining warm and supportive, parents may be able to influence the way their teen’s brain develops at this stage. Ages 13 to 14 Family support is a stress buffer.
Social Media Is Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes Last week, Steve Miller, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers, spoke to us in class about Public Broadcasting (PBS). The lecture was amazing, and my words will probably not do justice to his. However, I have to at least share with you what he told is very important. Most people reading this article probably benefited from or know someone who got something out of watching Sesame Street on television. This show actually enhanced education in the United States by teaching kids basic things like counting and the ABCs, while also providing entertainment (I am sure parents thanked Elmo for this part). Why am I talking about Elmo? Because PBS, where "Sesame Street" and other great educational shows aired, is publicly funded and some of that comes from the government. PBS did not just show "Sesame Street." OK great! All funding for Public Media was left out of President Trump’s initial 2018-2019 Federal Budget proposal. Cutting their budget leaves NPR and PBS with fewer resources.
Avoiding Gender Stereotypes Don't let your preschooler get tripped up by damaging stereotypes. By Barbara Solomon October 05, 2005 How Kids Understand Gender When my daughter Rachel was 4, she decided she would wear only dresses to preschool. Before long, her favorite activity became polishing her nails and applying pretend lipstick. As it turns out, Rachel was acting on a host of messages -- some subtle, some not so subtle -- that she'd been receiving since birth. Gary Levy, Ph.D., director of the Infant Development Center at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, studied 10-month-olds to see if they could comprehend gender-related information. It's not until kids are 3 or 4, however, that they really begin to work out for themselves what it means to be a boy or a girl. Although many progressive parents, like me, are shocked to see their children conforming to such narrowly defined gender play roles, we may inadvertently perpetuate those stereotypes. Expert Tips for Breaking Stereotypes Copyright© 2004.
'Class-passing': how do you learn the rules of being rich? On an October night in 2003, a flat tire changed Muhammad Faridi’s life forever. Faridi was 20. An immigrant who’d moved from a small village in Pakistan to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn when he was 12, he split his time studying at City University of New York during the day, and driving his dad’s cab at night to make money. One of his professors had organized a human rights conference in New Jersey and, knowing about Faridi’s side job, asked him to drive the woman delivering the keynote lecture to the conference and back. And that’s what Faridi was doing until he got a flat and had to pull over in the dark on the side of Route 80. As it turned out, Faridi’s passenger was Mary Robinson: the first female president of Ireland and the United Nations high commissioner for human rights from 1997 to 2002. It took Faridi a while to change the tire – everything seemed to be going wrong that night – and as he was struggling with the car jack, the two got talking. Bed-Stuy in the 1980s was rough.