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Title: GenderHealthy Children


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Gender-Healthy Children
  • Sue Bohlin
  • Probe Ministries
  • www.probe.org

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Gender Matters!
  • Supporting our kids gender results in a healthy
    self-concept
  • Important part of preventing homosexuality
    (gender identity confusion)
  • Gender differences between boys and girls are
    designed by God

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Celebrate Gender Differences
  • Boys get their sense of self from achievement.
    They are wired to be self-reliant. (Greatest
    fear failure)
  • Girls get their sense of self from relationships.
    They are wired to be interdependent. (Greatest
    fear abandonment)

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  • Boys are linear in their thinking girls are more
    intuitive.
  • Boys can focus on one thing at a time girls are
    multi-taskers and enjoy the process.

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  • Boys tend to be competitive girls tend to be
    cooperative.
  • Boys are action-oriented girls are more verbal.
  • Boys hostility is physical girls is verbal.

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  • Boys bond shoulder to shoulder
  • Girls bond face to face
  • Girls tend to be empathetic nurturers.
  • Boys tend to be aggressive nurturers.

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Affirm Childrens Gender
  • Affirm boys in their masculinity and girls in
    their femininity
  • Gender spectrum
  • Reassure the primary questions of their hearts
  • Do I have what it takes?
  • Am I beautiful?

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Affirm Childrens Gender
  • You can be a good strong male without playing
    sports.
  • You can be a soft, feminine lady and be an
    athlete or strong leader.
  • Sensitive, creative types make great husbands,
    pastors, counselors.
  • Support the social distinctions of masculinity
    and femininity
  • Specify what men/women and boys/girls do that is
    different.

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How Are We Different?
  • Mommies have babies, daddies take care of mommies
    and babies.
  • Girls cover up their chests, boys dont have to.
  • Girls use the girls restroom, boys use the boys
    restroom.
  • Girls can wear a dress or skirt boys wear pants.
  • Men can have beards and shave ladies dont.

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  • Girls wear make-up boys dont.
  • Girls wear high heels boys dont.
  • Girls sit down to use the toilet boys can stand
    up or sit down.
  • Girls can carry a purse boys put things in their
    pockets.
  • Boys open doors for other people girls say
    thank you.
  • In relationships, boys are the initiators
    girls are the responders.

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Celebrating Gender Differences in School
  • Male brains and female brains
  • 3 parts
  • 1. Brain stem instinct, fight/flight
  • 2. Limbic system experience emotions
  • 3. Upper brain (4 lobes) thinking

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Girls Brains
  • LEFT BRAIN verbal skills (speaking, reading,
    writing)
  • Mature earlier than boys brains
  • Corpus callosum up to 20 larger than boys
    brains more cross-talk between hemispheres
  • Better at impulse control than boys

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Boys Brains
  • RIGHT BRAIN spatial skills (measuring,
    direction, objects in space)
  • Mature later than girls brains later speech and
    reading development
  • Fewer neural connections between hemispheres
    brain activity focused in one area at a time
  • More developed in right hemisphere better
    spatial abilities measuring, mechanical
    things/design, geography, maps

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Social difference s
  • Girls bond first, ask questions later
  • Boys be aggressive first, ask questions later
  • Girls manage social bonds by alliances
  • Boys manage social energy by dominance and
    pecking order

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On the Playground
  • Boys physical, rough and vigorous, competitive,
    aggressive
  • Girls physically quieter and less active, more
    cooperative
  • Boys ignore newcomers till they prove their
    worth and value
  • Girls greet newcomers more warmly

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Movement
  • Boys Movement enhances learning
  • Movement manages and relieves impulsive behavior
  • Lower serotonin higher metabolism natural
    fidgeters
  • Boys use more space than girls for play and
    learning
  • Give boys things to do, and quiet toys to play
    with, while listening and learning

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Honoring Boys
  • Let them move around
  • Give them something to manipulate
  • Give them time to think and to process strong
    emotions (30-second wait time)
  • Let them engage in aggression play and expression
  • Encourage them to open up by not demanding that
    they look at you
  • Warn them a few minutes before a transition
  • Tell them God likes boys!

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