Gender Influencement: How Toys Impact The Gender Construction

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The Purpose of this essay is to discuss how toys impact the gender construction. Toys that can be describe as being toy which are generally suitable for one gender over the other such as wheeled or GI Joe doll for males and dolls or kitchen toys for females. The term gender refers in typical toys where it chooses the appropriate sex. It is very important to know the gender; but the parents are the one who chose the toys for their kids to know if they are masculine or feminine. Based on Social Learning theory, it determines that the child develops both gender identity and gender role through a learning process that involving modeling, imitation and reinforcement. The theory tested on the behavior of gender role where sometimes behavior is punished …show more content…

But when parents hold their babies, they play with them and try to communicate in their language. But a new born baby would not know until his eyes catches to his parents where they make different expressions and styles to behave with them. “Parents are the first source of children’s gender learning; they hold and communicate different expectations for males and females.” So, its true parents are their first object when a baby opens their eyes to know their gender by communicating to know their gender role. Also, when baby cries parents give them toys to play with and they hold it for entertain and by gender there are different toys for them to grow with them. Parents are the one who gave them toys; dress them as their toy gender and giving their kids as specific task such as girls play with brooms and while boys fixed the car machines. They dress their kids on special occasions such as Halloween, Christmas, etc. to know their gender and behaviors …show more content…

By all the teachings we had from parents, media and achievement it’s our lesson that we will provide to our future kids and give them same tutoring to know their better gender. Also, toys that we didn’t play or watch television so it’s now their time to enjoy all their excitement after they born. Last thing, the kids need to know our gender role better from beginning and parents have to spend some time with them by showing media and their achievements from school and

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