The so-called gender role education means that people of different sexes should adapt to the "prototype requirements" of society about gender. Although today's society pursues equality between men and women, this equality is an equal development under the premise of respecting natural gender characteristics, and it is an equality that shapes personality, not an equality without gender differences.

Children's gender education means that children can clearly understand their correct gender roles in childhood and develop personality styles suitable for their natural gender.

The importance of gender education

Gender education refers to the activities of guiding and influencing children to develop healthy personality, style and behavior suitable for their natural gender characteristics. Early childhood sex education is mainly the education of parents in family life. The first step is' gender identity', which depends on the harmonious and natural androgynous environment and androgynous influence: parents support each other and can show their respective gender advantages. Children living in such an environment can naturally and smoothly identify with their own gender.

When did gender education begin?

It is very necessary to carry out scientific gender education for children from an early age. Children's gender role consciousness is established from the age of 3, and the real formation of gender role consciousness is after children enter adolescence. As for the primary school stage of 6- 12 years old, children's attention shifts to the cultivation of learning social knowledge and interest, which belongs to the incubation period of children's gender consciousness. Therefore, gender education for children from an early age will help them form a healthy personality and lay a solid personality foundation for them to correctly handle gender relations after puberty.

The influence of early childhood is far greater than that of adolescent children. In the practice of psychological counseling, we found that people with homosexual tendencies can be traced back to their early childhood experiences. Parents and kindergartens should give proper gender education to children aged 3-6, teach them some basic physiological knowledge and self-protection awareness, and let them have a basic understanding of themselves.