Girls are girls, the girls will be women ... but they don't have to feel bad about being one, but proud of themselves. I think that the role of the family is essential for girls to have more confidence in achieving their goals, without having to think about whether or not they can only because of their gender.
In this video that I found in Babies and More (thanks Lola) they explain that in the years of puberty (10 to 12 years), it is when the girls are in a vulnerable moment because they try to discover themselves.
For that reason, certain gender-related stereotypes can harm them, even when they are unrealistic (and as we know adults, even sexists). This action focuses on certain phrases that we have all heard about 'do things like a girl'; as if doing them like this, the girls were worse.
It is an experiment conducted by a brand of female intimate products (Always). When some adults (women included), and a boy of about 12 or 13 years are asked, they all ridicule the actions they are asked to do 'as a girl'.
Instead, they are suggested to a group of preteen girls the same, and they do what they have to do: run, throw, hit ... even one states that if she is asked to 'run like a girl' for her is to run as fast as she can.
It is a video to reflect on, and I really like the statement of a young woman who says that if a child is told: 'you do this or that as a girl, it should not be ashamed, since it is, and there every which with his wrong ideas. ' Another thing is the connotation of prejudice that leads many people to think that women are incapable of ...
My daughter trains skating (now she wants to go to line hockey), and she has started to study violin, besides belonging to a folk group ... She also studies, plays, runs, reads ... maybe in certain things and moments something will work out better, same or worse than another girl or boy, but as a whole it is a girl with great capacity for effort, and to achieve goals.
Sometimes my son confesses to me that his friends say, 'that's hitting like a girl'; and I tell him that in those moments what he has to tell you is how his sister hits him when they fight (nothing serious, happens in the best families), so that they realize that it is not right to ridicule, besides being Get away from reality.
You are not more ridiculous for being a woman, and we should try a little harder to educate our sons and daughters to eliminate from society this way of perceiving others.
