"Start Seeing Diversity Video" Blog: Gender Identity, and sexual Orientation Week 3

I feel that when teaching children that may come for same-sex partnered familes it is important that they feel comfortable about their self and their familes. so as a teacher I feel it is important to help teach the children about same sex relationship when there is a child that is involved that may be in the class. I feel the right appropriate books would be a excellent tool.

                                           


After reading "Two Families Grapple with Sons' Gender" got me to thinking about my three year old son. My son is around his two girls cousins alot. One of my niece love Dora and the other likes all the princess characters. I hear my son saying he is a princess and I immediately correct him that girls are princess and boys are princes. I also took notice that my son would want to buy a girl toy from timt to time but I redirect him that he have to get a toy for a boy. Do this make me a bad mother that is not letting her son make his own choices or not letting him to explore girls toys?  Am I fighting sometime within me? This topic really got me thinking about my bias.

          

References

Spiegel, A. (2008). Two families  grapple with sons’ gender identity: Psychologist take radically different approaches in therapy.