Gender-Neutral Parenting
(Topic for debate week)
Brainstorm: How do you think children learn about what “man/boy” and “woman/girl” are?
Part1: Reading
Vocabulary:
impose: (v.) to force a rule to be obeyed
gender assigned at birth: (n.) phrase used to refer to the gender expectations put on someone since birth based on their sex, rather than how someone sees their own gender identity
Part2: Video
Vocabulary:
look (someone) dead in the eyes: (idiom) make intense eye contact, especially when saying something shocking
toddlerhood: (n.) the period of a child’s life when they are a toddler and everything that involves, usually from 1 to 3 years old