![]() ![]() There was no time for either of our children to show us their ‘innate’ behaviour because they were already being treated differently. And Marianne Grabrucker’s book was the thing that showed us how tiny little things in everyday life shape our children’s understanding of themselves as being ‘boy’ or ‘girl’.Īnd it was from day one. ![]() ![]() When our children were born, people would say, “Oh you’ll see, you treat them just the same, but boys and girls act completely differently, it’s in the genes.” It isn’t. ![]() She recorded the experiences in her daughter’s life that were shaping her as female. We were inspired to keep the diary by Marianne Grabrucker’s book There’s a Good Girl: Gender Stereotyping in the First Three Years – A Diary (1988). This is a guest post by The parents are both journalists working in Westminster and living in South London.įor a year now we’ve been tweeting as about the ways we’ve seen people treat our 4-year-old girl and our 15-month-old boy differently. ![]()
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