The Influence of Gender

"The Family:  A Proclamation to the World" is truly inspired!  As gender was the subject of this week, we talked about how boys and girls are born with talents and skills that help them in their future roles as adults.  For example, girls tend to be nurturing to dolls and boys like to make guns out of anything and pretend to shoot people.  From the video that was assigned, it was interesting how toys manufactures have tried to market trucks to girls and dolls to boys and they end up losing money because boys are generally more drawn to trucks and girls are more drawn to dolls.  These types of scenarios help show how the different genders are born with inherent qualities that distinguish them from one another.  It also helps establish the fact that both a mother and a father are needed to raise a child.  A mother and father have different approaches to raising a child that help influence a child's proper development.  The most interesting fact that I found was how parents hold babies.  Mothers tend to hold babies close and facing towards them.  On the other hand, fathers hold babies facing out to the world.  To me, this was very interesting and one that I have seen many times displayed before with people at church and those in my own family.