Kids at a young age find out what they can and can not do
according to the gender rules. Parents try to guide their kids in the right way
by the type of gender they are. The short story that by Aaron H. Devor
describes mainly how each gender should act and the way the parents raise the
kids.
My mother taught me how to be the young lady I am today. I
came from a house of 3 brothers and a dad so I always had boys around. Of
course sense I was the only girl my parents did not want me to act so much like
the boys they wanted to make sure I acted like a girl. When I was little I was
always the one allowed to go shopping with my mom cause it was a girl thing and
to get me out of the house and away from all the boys. They boys hated that I
was always allowed to go but my mom explained to them it was a girl thing. I
always was put into a dance class. The dance class was a great thing my parents
put me in because it allowed me to get away from my brothers and do my own
thing.
The boys were always messing around beating up on one another
and at times I would get brought into just because I was always around them.
They also played with all the boy toys and sense I was the only girl I did not
have many girl toys that lasted in my house. My mom always felt bad for me so
she started to get me out of the house and do more girly activities.
My mom was not super strict on me not hanging around the guys
she just wanted me to get away from them at times. I believe it defiantly
helped me be who I am today. Being able
to do girl things with my mom and dance class just let me be a girl and not
have to be around all the boys. I was taught at a young age the difference
between what role a boy takes and what role a girl takes.
I liked how you used your own examples, from your life, and it sounds like an interesting, yet at times challenging childhood.
ReplyDeleteI was also the only girl aside from my mom, but I only have one younger brother and my dad, and my uncle is over at our house a lot, but I still didn’t have 3 brothers. Either way, I could be called at times a tom boy because I like to do the things the guys do, such as move furniture, wrestle with my bro, help dad with the car repair or yard work, but I also enjoy the ‘woman’ jobs too, baking, cooking, sewing, crafts, etc. I guess in that sense I am just an Oddball.
It’d be interesting to hear a bit more about your childhood on this aspect, did you ever do the stuff with the guys because you wanted to? Did you sometimes not want to do the girly stuff and just be a tom-boy for a while? Which, girl or guy activities, in the end do you like better?