In 2021, most of us would like to assume that we’ve made some pretty positive ground with busting gender stereotypes. After all, most of us are now fully aware that not all girls like wearing pink and doing the washing up (at least, you would hope so!) Picture Credit: CC0 Licence Dads, especially, could benefit…
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[ad] Easy Ways To Bust Gender Stereotypes At Home
Read moreGender stereotyping is everywhere. We see it in the workplace, where men and women still fall into the same job roles. We see it in children’s storybooks, where women are still the caregivers and mengo off to work. And we might even see it within people’s homes, where a mum might say “a woman’s work is never…
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A Woman’s Work Is Never Done Or Should It Be A Mans Work As Well?
Read moreThe other day I was decorating in a property and the client was a lady in her mid-sixties. I was just getting on with the work which was papering one wall in the bedroom. Meanwhile she was pottering around and as she walked past the bedroom door, she announced to me that a woman’s work…
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Daughters Can Be Rad Just Like Their Dad: Asda’s Think Not
Read moreThe definition of RAD generally is awesome, so when I saw a range of clothes at Asda’s the other day, I instantly thought, yes my one twin girl, R, would love these. However, my heart instantly sank, and you may ask why? While some retailers in the high street have now done away with girls…
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Dads Taking Their Daughters To The Mens Toilet
Read moreToday I will be speaking on the Radio at around 10am. A researcher phoned me from the Jason Mohammed show which is broadcast on Radio Wales to ask if I would like to be interviewed. The subject matter was dads taking their daughters to the mens toilet in public places. I didn’t know it at…
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Transgender Kids
Read moreA little while ago I watched Louis Theroux’s documentary about transgender kids. I was completely engrossed by the show and the stories of children not knowing, or in fact knowing if they are in the right body or if they are the right gender. Since watching the show I have struggled to decide if it…
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Gender Stereotyping Is Not Going To Stop My 5 Year Twin Girls: So They Say
Read moreNearly every morning my five year old twins wake up at around 6am which is ok because they are usually fast asleep by 6.45pm every night. The downside for me is that once I’m awake that’s it, I can’t go back to sleep, so I generally get up with the them, while their mum lies…
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Tomboy: Its Actually An Offensive Word If You Are Girl
Read moreI recently read a post by my very good friend Alan who blogs at OMG It’s A Girl called ‘Don’t call me tomboy’. It’s a truly brilliant post about his little girl. What I particularly like about the post is the history behind the word ‘tomboy’ and that it actually dated back to the 16th century,…
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My Little Superhero and Princess
Read moreI wrote a post in March last year called Superhero v Princess. The post was all about my five year old twin girls and although there is only two minutes between them being born they really couldn’t be more different in their likes and dislikes. I have wondered for a long time whether it’s nurture…
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Do We As Parents Dictate What Toys Our Children Play With
Read moreI have written on a few occasions about gender stereotyping when it comes to toys, films and activities for our children. I am 100% behind toys being gender free. As parents I have often wondered do we influence what toys our children play with because of our own likes and dislikes from childhood? After all…
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Gender Stereotyping in our Schools
Read moreIf I am entirely honest I never thought for one minute that I would experience any form of gender stereotyping in our schools, let alone primary school when dealing with four/five year old children, but I have in just the last few days. If we are going to eradicate gender issues and allow our children…
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Our Children Are Being Influenced everywhere.
Read moreOur four year old twin girls really are so very different and as they grow up it is becoming even more obvious. They are not identical twins, but they do at times look exactly like each other. Thankfully R is a little bit taller so they can never catch us out or play games on…
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Conversations with my four year olds: Gender Stereotyping
Read moreAfter having a conversation with my four year old twins the other day about what they wanted to be when they were older, it got me thinking. It got me to thinking that they have no idea about gender sterotyping in society, but the reality is it’s alive and kicking. My hope and dream…
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Are shops guilty of gender stereotyping kids?
Read moreI have yet again been amazed at how ridiculous the big shops are. You may ask why so I shall explain to you how disappointed I am in their attitude towards gender and clothes for our children. We went to ASDA on Saturday because I needed a pair of cheap jeans for my work.…
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How accepting will you be of your children’s choices
Read moreWhen I was growing up I think my mother expected me to conform to what is considered the “norm”. That being a heterosexual male mean getting married and having children. As it happens that’s how I turned out. So my mother didn’t have to accept any different choices I may have had about my life.…
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How far have we come with racism, gender and sexism
Read moreLife in the 1950’s was very different to life as we know it now. Racism and sexism was rife and if you happened to be either of these things, then the 1950’s was probably the best era for you live in because the majority of your fellow peers probably thought the same way as you…
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Superhero v Princess
Read moreI am dad to four year old twin girls and you would not believe how their personalities and characters are so completely different. R was born first by two minutes and this girl loves Captain America, Superman and her all time favourite Spider-Man, and just about every other Superhero. What has fascinated me is…
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Gender Stereotyping
Read moreThe other day my wife was at a playgroup that the girls attend every week. She was talking to a grandmother and happened to say that M was going to ballet for the first time that night. This person then turned to R and said are you going too so R said no I will…
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