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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Guys are more likely to have mechanical experience. They are more likely to take their bicycles apart when they are kids, tinker with lawn mower engines, help dad change the oil in the car, and get all that black grease and oil all over them. Thats just the way things are in our culture.
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Yes...it is the way in our culture but it doesn't have to be. When I was young...I took everything apart. It was years later when I told my parents what I did with their electrical equipment. The difference was....when I took it apart....I put the pieces on the floor the way I dismantled things...thus...I was able to put things back together and no one knew. I am sure that I was not the only girl who was doing the same thing.
Again...yes it is our culture....as educated adults...do we have to permeate this? It is up to us to change things. Viva la revolucion!
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Originally Posted by tiffany34990
girls generally get dolls to play and the guys get truck and blocks. as a young child as studies shown these affect us...our motor skills, what we like and what we dislike... some have the insight to the way things works other just perhaps know what it looks like or not....
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What Tiffany wrote is correct....there is a Harry Chapin song...."boys are taught to reach for the sky....girls are taught to reach as high as the cupboard...." these lyrics has been very influential when I was raising my kids....Barbie dolls and dance classes were banned from Tiffany's wish list and extra-curricular activities...now LEGO's, Brio's and truck..oh my..oh yeah were accepted....she did not get her first doll house until first grade...yes I know...bad mom....depriving her of the influence of the gender stereotyping.