The last two things I have to say about parenting styles.
|Gender Development in Early Childhood: How Boys will be Boys
and Girls Learn to be Girls| ANOTHER TRUE STORY Many years ago,
when I was in graduate school, the McMartin Preschool case was
in the news every day (kind of like the impeachment hearings or,
a couple of years ago, the O.J. Simpson trial). Because it was
located fairly close to where we lived, and because most of us
had small children, my fellow students and I became somewhat
paranoid about child sexual abuse. So, when the student next to
me in class commented that her three-year-old had come home from
preschool and said, "I know all about the differences between
boys and girls," those of us sitting next to her gasped, The
mother laughed and said, "That's what I thought, too, but
instead of saying anything about penises and vaginas, she went
through this whole thing about how'Boys play with firetrucks and
girls play with dolls. Boys play in the sandbox and girls play
in the housekeeping area