What is gender education for preschoolers
Gender education of preschool children is the process of instilling in a child an awareness of what gender he belongs to, the development of established cultural and moral values. It is necessary to teach a young person to understand that a girl mainly plays the role of a mother in the family, takes care of the family hearth and raises children.
Gender education of children
Boys, as is commonly believed in society, are real hard workers who earn money and provide for their family.
Important! The gender approach to raising preschool children will worry every parent, since every child must be aware of their biological sex. Otherwise, such children will have problems with self-identification, which will lead to misunderstanding in many circles of society.
Methods of gender education for preschool children are divided into several types, which are described in detail in the reference literature. For example, most families take educational measures of a traditional nature.
Formation of gender identity in preschool children
This is a very important stage in the life of every preschooler. Every child should be aware from an early age which gender they belong to. Therefore, girls are taught from an early age to be soft, feminine, but purposeful. From childhood she is given to understand that her future role is to create a family and raise her own offspring.
Boys are taught to show their masculinity, strive to achieve their own goals, take care of girls, so that in the future he can become an exemplary family man and father.
Formation of gender identity
Important! The development of the child as an individual and the formation of his future life and main goals depend on all of the above. A gender approach to education includes special attention from parents and teachers.
Taking into account the gender characteristics of preschool children
Girls and boys have their own psychological characteristics that need to be taken into account when gender education:
- Girls develop faster, for example, they begin to speak and walk earlier, and are more sociable in communicating with peers.
- Boys love to explore the world and interact with it: they climb into wells, trees, and run in places unknown to them. During such games there is a high probability of getting some kind of injury. They never sit still.
- Girls prefer to sit in a cozy place, play with dolls and not run all over the playground screaming loudly.
Patriotic education in preschool educational institutions
This is not a complete list. In this case, the psychological characteristics of children are clearly visible. Sex education helps them understand who they are.
Important! Children in preschool educational institutions are divided into groups depending on age: one year, two, three, and so on.
Gender characteristics of communication among preschool children
When a child enters kindergarten, personality formation begins. From childhood, people learn to communicate with their peers, seek compromise, quarrel, make peace, share their things or exchange food.
At this stage, parents and teachers of preschool educational institutions must instill in everyone an awareness of their gender, gender roles and cultivate certain behavior patterns through joint efforts.
Gender differences in preschool children
As presented above, preschoolers have psychological characteristics depending on their biological sex.
- Girls are more obedient in childhood, try to be closer to their parents, in particular to their mother, and are attached to their home.
- Boys perceive information best visually, while girls perceive information best auditorily.
Interesting! In a preschool institution, you can arrange a presentation for parents, which will clearly show the methods, requirements and conditions for raising a full-fledged personality.
Gender differences
Consultation for parents
“Gender education of girls and boys in the family.”
How we raise our children, what personal qualities we can develop in them, taking into account their individual and gender characteristics, directly determines what kind of women and men they will become in the future, what kind of parents they will be for their children. The importance of the period of preschool childhood is invaluable in general for the development of a child’s personality. All the most important personality qualities, inclinations and abilities are formed precisely in preschool age.
Often, parents forget that girls and boys see, hear, touch differently, perceive space differently and navigate in it, and most importantly, they interpret everything they encounter in this world differently. And certainly not in the same way as we adults.
Observing modern children, it can be noted that girls become aggressive and rude, and boys adopt a feminine type of behavior. In older groups, many girls lack modesty, tenderness, patience, and do not know how to peacefully resolve conflict situations. Boys, on the contrary, do not know how to stand up for themselves, are physically weak, lack stamina and emotional stability, and they lack a culture of behavior towards girls. The content of children’s games is also alarming: children demonstrate patterns of behavior that do not correspond to the child’s gender, do not know how to negotiate in the game, or assign roles. In addition, in the process of working, children find it difficult to independently distribute responsibilities taking into account the gender of their partner. Boys do not show a desire to come to the aid of girls when physical strength is needed, and girls are in no hurry to help boys where thoroughness and accuracy are needed.
To correct the situation of “mixing” of genders, parents need to adjust the process of raising girls and boys. You cannot raise children according to the principle “the way I was raised.”
Recommendations for raising girls
Firstly, it is very important that there is a warm, trusting relationship between daughter and mother (as well as father). In turn, parents need to emphasize the tender and caring relationship in the couple so that the girl has the impression of a happy family life.
A father should find time to communicate with his daughter: show that his daughter is different from him, she is of a different gender; but he must do this with respect and benevolence, so that she understands that she is worthy of a man’s love.
Respect your daughter’s personality, showing satisfaction with her actions, and form the girl’s positive self-esteem.
Mother and daughter should have their own “women's secrets”: the mother should find time to have a heart-to-heart conversation with her daughter. Conversations should be regular.
Real care for each other is demonstrated through respect for the older generation.
The mother should involve her daughter in “female” household chores, passing on to her the secrets of her skills.
A girl needs to feel that she can trust her parents - that they are always ready to understand her feelings, desires and needs.
Girls need more help and encouragement. By offering to help a girl, you let her know that you are not indifferent to her, that you care about her.
Girls need more attention and recognition for who they are, what they feel and what they want.
Girls feel the need to be loved for who they are. Admire them!
Recommendations for raising boys
When communicating with his son, a father should restrain his emotions and try to speak calmly without raising his tone.
Boys need to be PROHIBITED less often, and more often ALLOWED something extra for a good deed.
It should be natural for boys to show their emotionality (not be scolded for crying).
Moms need to trust dad to raise their son more: he FEEL how to raise a man.
To develop a sense of responsibility in boys.
Be sure to encourage the desire to do men's work in the house!
There must be physical, bodily contact - to increase the boy’s self-esteem.
Mom TAKES CARE, and dad MAKES a man.
The parents' task is to show more trust, acceptance and approval towards the boy in order to motivate him to activity.
So, a boy and a girl should never be raised the same way. They speak and remain silent, feel and experience differently. Try to understand and accept our boys and girls as they are, as different and beautiful in their own way as nature created them. But whether it will be possible to preserve, reveal, develop these inclinations, without damaging or breaking them, depends only on you and me.
A.V. Levanova, teacher
Pedagogical conditions for the development of gender identity
A teacher working with preschool children should know the following aspects:
- Specifics of children's development according to their age. Gender-role identification.
- Aspects in various fields of activity that are available to a preschooler. The role of parents in the family and their functions.
- Principles of correct formation of gender role education of a child.
The teacher is also a representative of a certain gender in society. It should help young people understand the moral and cultural values of modern society according to female or male gender.
Self-education of educators on the topic of gender education
If the teacher does not have reliable knowledge in this area, it is worth reading a lot of reference literature, which can be found on the Internet or in some city libraries. The best books on this topic are published in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard.
You can also contact experienced specialist psychologists and learn about the correct gender education of preschoolers.
Gender education of preschool children through interaction between kindergarten and family
Teachers of a preparatory institution (kindergarten) should notice some deviations in the gender behavior of children and immediately report this to parents. This needs to be done immediately and not left to chance. The further development of personality depends on this.
Decorating a theater corner in kindergartens
Important! After conversations, experienced psychologists can “shed light” on all the nuances that mothers and fathers will be interested in. You can educate yourself. It will be beneficial.
Overcoming the difficulties of gender education
Planning work with parents
Parents should be invited to the institution and the essence of the problem should be discussed with them. After this, you should give recommendations. Only after fruitful work can one grow into a mature personality who understands perfectly who he is.
Cooperation between preschool and family
It is necessary to diagnose all problems at an early age so that there are no irreversible consequences of improper upbringing in the future. A preschool institution should cooperate with parents and help them raise a healthy and mature personality.
Gender education of girls and boys in the family: consultation for parents
If in kindergarten boys behave in accordance with female norms of behavior, and girls behave in accordance with masculine norms, it is necessary to immediately consult with parents in order to correct the problems and deviations that have arisen.
The role of parents in the gender socialization of the child
Parents play a major role in the gender socialization of the child, from childhood they instill in their offspring certain norms of behavior and lay down moral values in general terms.
Differences in raising girls and boys
Child psychologists argue that you need to be patient with the child, and also take into account the differences in moral and social values of men and women.
Differences between girls and boys
If a daughter grows up in a family
If a daughter is growing up in a family, the mother needs to pay special attention to her child. It is she who instills feminine values in a girl, teaches how to cook, clean the house, shows behavior models for proper care of children, and develops femininity.
If parents have a son
In this case, the father should take on the main educational role. He is obliged to instill in his son male values, involve him in various male jobs around the house, and teach him construction.
A boy can be enrolled in sports clubs so that he acquires some useful skills, can stand up for himself, and learn to achieve his goals.
Raising a child is a difficult job for every family. It is worth focusing on the child’s range of interests, the “content” of his thoughts and desires, and not forcing him to do what is interesting to his parents. Gender self-identification plays an important role in the modern world.
Only through the joint efforts of teachers and parents can one develop a full-fledged personality. It is necessary to create certain conditions for the traditional education of the individual.
MAGAZINE Preschooler.RF
Consultation for parents “What kind of boys and girls are we?”When your child is born, not everyone can say with certainty whether it is a boy or a girl. After all, children wrapped in swaddling clothes cannot be distinguished by their appearance. Pink and blue outfits help distinguish the gender of the child. It is difficult to distinguish the gender of a child even in the year when babies have their hair cut and dressed in identical suits.
But the recordings of brain biocurrents in newborn boys and girls are already different. Based on the biocurrents of the brain, you can determine which of them is which. We, adults, also intuitively feel this difference, so we talk differently with our son and daughter, and use different methods in education. Boys are often punished for misbehavior and reprimanded in a stern voice. They are not allowed to cry. Girls are more often pitied and caressed, and the boy is told: “You’re a man, men don’t cry!” And when teaching, the difference between boys and girls is not always used. In preschool education curricula there are such phrases: “A child at three years old should...” , “By the age of five he can already...” And in medical tables, weight and height norms are different for boys and girls.
What's the difference?
Girls are born 3-4 weeks more mature, and by the time they reach puberty this difference varies by almost 2 years.
Boys begin to walk 2-3 months later than girls, and speak 4-6 months later.
When giving birth to boys, women are more likely to experience complications. For every 100 conceptions of girls, there are 120-180 conceptions of boys.
Boys are more active than girls. For children 7–15 years old, injuries in boys occur 2 times more often.
Those who are difficult to educate are often boys. They are scolded more often and picked up less.
Until the age of 8, boys have higher hearing acuity (genetic, memory - you need to track down game and kill it in order to bring it to your woman’s cave) than girls.
Girls are sensitive to noise, sharp sounds irritate them. Their skin sensitivity is more developed, so girls need to stroke their skin more often.
Boys' games rely on distant vision. They run after each other. Throwing objects at a target. If space is limited, then they master it vertically: they climb onto the stairs, the bedside table. Therefore, boys need sports vertical corners or large spacious rooms for games.
Girls' games rely on near vision. They place their toys near them.
They respond differently in class. The boy looks at the desk, to the side if he doesn’t know, or in front of him if he knows the answer. And the girl looks into the face, as if looking for confirmation in the adult’s eyes that the answer is correct.
Boys ask questions specifically to obtain information. And the girls ask questions to establish contact. When a new teacher came to the class, the girls always asked if he would come again, if he had a family. The boys didn't care about any of this.
Girls have better developed fine motor skills. Therefore, they write accurately and do better work related to fine motor skills (embroidery, beading).
Boys are more excitable, irritable, restless, intolerant, insecure and more aggressive than girls.
Girls have better speech fluency and reading speed. But boys are better at problem solving and crossword puzzles.
The girls’ brain is ready to respond to any trouble, ready to respond to influence from any side (survival instinct), since the goal of the female is the birth of life and its preservation. And the goal of the male gender is progress. Men make discoveries, and women improve these discoveries.
A boy and a girl are two different worlds, so they cannot be raised the same way. Let's try to understand our boys and girls, because they are future men and women and must live up to their essence. By raising real men and women, we will make life easier for our children in the future, we will help them avoid the mistakes that they have made in their lives out of ignorance.
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