Recently, my colleague Susan told me a story. She was about to send her son, Samuel to a dance class and learn piano. And she ended up being scold by her son. He told her that most of the students in the dance class are girls. And if he joined in, he will become a girl too. That brings us throughout a fun lunch. This condition occurred when there’s less “gender consistency” an understanding of sex identity.
The first step to grasp sex consistency in children is to make sure that they recognize that they belong to one sex or other – girl or boy. Gender identity needs to be established in their mind early childhood as their label and a certainty. As from their beginning age about three to four, such question “when you grow up, will you be a father or a mother” or “can you change into boy or girl now” are very useful to set a certain mindset during their childhood period.
They might be acquired to understand how they should adopted by clothing, hair styles and behaviors that associate with opposite sex. As time goes by, such questions may direct them to think and remain their mindset into remaining either they are girl or boy because they would continue to behave consistently as a boy or girl
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