Boys are expected to do sports, like cars, get into fights, be into video games; while girls are expected to stay indoors, read, draw, express themselves more in the creative field rather than a physical one. Of course, everything has an exception and there are shy and studious boys, and outgoing and sports oriented girls, but in large, that is outside the normal despite how far we 've expanded the gender boxes from where they first started. Reading is an essential part of learning, without reading our education system would be nowhere, that’s why reading has to be taught at the home, but who is it taught by? Just as Peg Tyre in her article The Trouble With Boys said, Mom is the one who does most bed time reading to the young children and it’s Mom who the child is most likely walk in on reading a book. In that crucial development stage boys get it ingrained in them that it’s women who do the reading and that it’s a girl thing to do, thus they can not be seen doing it if they want to fit in with their peers. One way to fix this would be to encourage fathers to read to their kids more, showing them, both boys and girls, that everybody reads and that there is nothing to be ashamed of
Boys are expected to do sports, like cars, get into fights, be into video games; while girls are expected to stay indoors, read, draw, express themselves more in the creative field rather than a physical one. Of course, everything has an exception and there are shy and studious boys, and outgoing and sports oriented girls, but in large, that is outside the normal despite how far we 've expanded the gender boxes from where they first started. Reading is an essential part of learning, without reading our education system would be nowhere, that’s why reading has to be taught at the home, but who is it taught by? Just as Peg Tyre in her article The Trouble With Boys said, Mom is the one who does most bed time reading to the young children and it’s Mom who the child is most likely walk in on reading a book. In that crucial development stage boys get it ingrained in them that it’s women who do the reading and that it’s a girl thing to do, thus they can not be seen doing it if they want to fit in with their peers. One way to fix this would be to encourage fathers to read to their kids more, showing them, both boys and girls, that everybody reads and that there is nothing to be ashamed of