Nursery World - Children’s choice

Gender stereotyping needs to be tackled, but we shouldn’t take choice away from children in the process

I had an earnest conversation with the children at nursery about gender last week. We had been part of a gender research project and this brought the topic into clearer focus. The recent reporting of the Welsh government’s new approach to school uniforms had come up (well, I had instigated it) and it was interesting to see what everyone’s opinion was.

I know from my own, adult children’s perspective that I have now reached the status of being of the age that I grasp simple concepts such as gender neutrality and non-binary with difficulty. I feel that this maybe more about the changing language rather than the intellectual concept, but that is another thing entirely.

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