In fact, every child needs the guidance of parents to understand the gender differences between men and women and distinguish himself from other children. However, in real life, most parents adopt traditional education methods, ignoring gender education for their children, which leads to gender cognitive obstacles for children and even affects social interaction.

The Importance of Gender Education to Children

Affect children's normal social skills.

Proper gender education plays a vital role in helping children master normal social skills, while parents' neglect of gender education will lead to gender and cognitive obstacles for children, and even affect their future socialization, love and even marriage.

Good gender education can help children grow up well.

Although the current society advocates equality between men and women, such equality between men and women is based on gender cognition, and such equality emphasizes the equality of personality, not the external equality of everyone. Therefore, good gender cognition can help children find their own role orientation and better pursue social equality.

Gender education can guide children to establish healthy personality characteristics.

Gender education is to let children choose their own healthy personality characteristics according to their own physiological characteristics. Nowadays, due to the influence of traditional ideas, a large number of parents educate their children in nature, ignoring the education of their children's gender.

Such problems lead to more and more girls showing masculine characteristics, while more and more boys become sensitive and delicate, even lacking masculinity.

Parents' gender education plays an important role in children's growth. Good gender education can help children to have a sense of gender, so as to give full play to their gender advantages and overcome their personality problems. Of course, gender education should be gradual, and it can't be done overnight.

Gender education timetable

3~6 years old gender education enlightenment period

According to scientific research, the key period of children's gender education lies in early childhood, but in China, due to the influence of traditional concepts, gender education is not perfect, and children's gender and cognitive errors often appear in early childhood.

Therefore, both parents and kindergartens should attach importance to the gender enlightenment of children aged 3-6 and help them correctly understand the physiological gender.

The Key Period of Gender Education —— Primary School

As soon as children enter school, they begin to receive public education to help them understand the differences between men and women, and to help them understand the privacy of the body and the names of various parts. This is the obligation of parents.

Let children understand the social norms between different sexes and help them master the correct social procedures. Of course, at this stage, parents should also popularize the physiological phenomena of menstruation knowledge and nocturnal emission to their children in time.

Middle school stage

When children enter middle school, parents should promptly popularize the concept of adolescence, help children face personal privacy correctly, learn to protect themselves and prevent sexual harassment and sexual harm. At this stage, parents should also help their children understand teenagers' sexual impulses to avoid the occurrence of abortion.

How should parents educate their children about gender?