Monday, July 2, 2007
Chop sticks and other gender stereotypes
Rob and I took the girls for "Pho" tonight. Kaylee pointed out that girls use chopsticks and boys use forks. I was a generalization based on the fact that I use chopsticks and Rob doesn't. It scares me a bit because I wonder what other generalizations and observations about life are they picking up from us. Gender based or not. Lots, I guess. That's how it's suposed to work. But, like, yikes! I'm a mess! It scares me.
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Conclusions they may be making:
Boys make supper, clean house (poorly), get kid's dressed and do other domestic duties 60% of the time while girls go to their offices and work.
I think the girls will be ok as long as we remain atypical as a family.
Also:
Girls are the emotionally stable, rational forces in families while boys are a mess.
It's not even so much about gender stuff as just general stuff they are absorbing from us. There's stuff we don't even know about, don't even see. How to eat spaghetti, how long to hug someone for, how people take care of each other, or don't. It freaks me right out!
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