Question

You have placed a few sets of fairy wings in the dress-up area. You envisaged that these would be used by children of the female gender. One day you observe a child of the male gender wearing the wings. What should you do? (100–150 words)

Answer 1

First, it is likely and normal for every child to be curious about the new things they see around them. Everychild in their growing up phase is in the process of learning and constantly making sense of the environment. Also, gender specific items are not a very well aware phenomena to a child- it gets registered in their heads only through the way they have been socialozed. Here, we should know that it is alright and normal for the chikd to wear the wings. And we shoud not therefore, panic the situation as to feeling that the male child is showing some transgressions of his gender. No,, that is wrong notion of socialization we all have. What we shoud be doing is give the male child his own time and we can further talk to him as to the reason why he liked and wear the wings. Howvwer, we should stop ourselves from seeing an imminent danger falling on the male child becuse that might lead to our own biased actoons which can produce bad influcenes.