How to help children correctly understand their gender and provide sex education for them

Psychological research has shown that the critical period for the formation of gender awareness in children is between 1.5 and 3 years old, and gender awareness is fully formed by the age of 6. Therefore, in critical periods, it is necessary to correctly educate and guide the gender roles of infants to prevent confusion in their roles.

How to help children correctly recognize their gender?

1. We cannot subjectively believe that gender is good, and gender differences are unconsciously exposed in contact, interaction, and upbringing with infants, which has a negative impact on their growth.

2. Expectations for infants that align with gender roles should be treated differently based on gender. If you insist on dressing your baby in clothes that are suitable for their gender and giving them some gender based toys, you can chat and solve problems with them in different ways, allowing your baby to gradually develop the correct gender role concept through our expectations, hints, and guidance.

3. Male infants learn behaviors that are suitable for men from their fathers, while maintaining a good father son relationship with their mothers. Female infants learn behaviors that are suitable for women from their mothers while maintaining a harmonious relationship with their fathers. This is very helpful for the masculinization of boys and the feminization of girls. Try to have more contact and activities with relatives of the same gender in the family.

4. Utilize selective encouragement methods. Boys like to cry. Why do boys like to cry so much? If he is brave, praise him and encourage him. This method makes babies naturally aware of the relationship between gender and behavior during the learning process.

5. There are many opportunities for gender roles to guide babies to interact with their gender partners and participate in games. Encourage babies to establish gender hero roles as role models and continuously learn characteristics that match their own gender roles.

What can't children do?

1. Crotch pants

The pants under the crotch can only be worn until around one year old. Parents should not be simple. At the age of three, if a baby goes out wearing pants under their hips, they may feel exposed, their gender may be blurry, and bacteria may not be healthy. The harm of going on like this is that one does not know it is privacy, which can easily bring opportunities to bad people. Now that young children have committed so many crimes, it is very dangerous.

2. Toilet

Feeling like the child is young, don't you understand? NO, think about how good you were when you were a child. Although you don't know the essence of men and women, you also know the difference between ignorance. We have been unable to bring our baby into places outside of their gender since we were young. I know a boy from a family who always follows his mother until he finally enters elementary school and even goes to the women's restroom to use the restroom. The teacher is very surprised. This is the reason why mothers always bring them into the women's restroom. At such a young age, gender awareness is still unclear, and we need to strengthen gender awareness through different behaviors between men and women.