To cultivate children's gender awareness, we can strengthen children's gender roles through playmates. Gender role refers to the whole culture in which men and women have different behaviors, hobbies, attitudes, skills and personality characteristics. According to gender schema theory, children will extract gender-related information from the environment before making gender-specific behaviors. Once children realize their gender, they will match their behavior with what the culture thinks boys and girls should do. Preschool children usually like to play with children of the same sex and age. And often being with same-sex playmates can strengthen children's gender roles. But now many only children have no brothers or sisters at home, so it is difficult to find a partner of the same age when they go out. This requires parents to try their best to find several fixed same-sex playmates for their children, such as neighbors, relatives and friends, classmates and fellow villagers.
In childhood, the principles of parents' gender education for their children are as follows: answer every question of the child directly, no matter how embarrassed the parents feel, but express it naturally; Answer whatever the child asks, and the content of the answer cannot exceed the questions raised by the child; Unclear questions are discussed with children by reading books; For children of different ages, the methods and degrees are different.
If a girl asks her mother, "Why do boys have something and I don't?" Mothers should tell their children clearly: "Girls don't have children, boys have children, and this is the difference between boys and girls."
In fact, children before the age of 3 are not very gender-conscious. After the age of 3, children gradually realized that "men and women are different" and began to pretend to be men and women. With a little growth, children will gradually form a comprehensive understanding of men's and women's clothing, behavior and personality characteristics, and gradually form a psychological gender.