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| Subject: How to do gender neutral parenting Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:03 am | |
| Spend five minutes watching little boys and girls play and before you know it someone will be commenting on how much more developed the girls’ verbal and social skills are compared with the boys and how much more physically able the boys are.
Someone will no doubt pip in with one of those little nuggets of pop-neuroscience that you hear on a breakfast TV show which 'proves' that boys’ and girls’ heads are wired differently.
Such neurological and biological determinism can leave progressive parents feeling a touch beleaguered. It’s fortunate, then, that many of the supposedly ironclad truths about boys and girls’ brains have the same shelf-life as a policy statement by Christopher Pyne.
http://www.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/parenting-and-families/how-to-do-gender-neutral-parenting-20131203-2yo0n.html |
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