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    How to Teach Boys to be Fair to Girls: DEI Parent Guidebooks
    How to Teach Boys to be Fair to Girls: DEI Parent Guidebooks
    How to Teach Boys to be Fair to Girls: DEI Parent Guidebooks
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    How to Teach Boys to be Fair to Girls: DEI Parent Guidebooks

    By Trish Allison

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    Inside this guidebook, you'll find concise how-to instructions, age-appropriate ideas, and real-life scenarios for teaching boys (ages 6-12) how to be fair to girls. These are the steps we found to be the most effective for making sure your message sinks in.

    1. Learn his true opinion of gender equality.
    2. Help him cultivate empathy.
    3. Explain 'consent' so he remembers.
    4. Find the right male role model.
    5. Create a gender-equal environment at home.

    Please note: Instead of general advice like 'be a good role model' or 'talk about feelings,' our guidebooks provide specific, age-appropriate examples and step-by-step instructions for integrating diversity and inclusion values into daily life at home.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDEI for Parents
    Release dateSep 28, 2024
    ISBN9781393392033
    How to Teach Boys to be Fair to Girls: DEI Parent Guidebooks
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    Trish Allison

    Raising two children in a non-traditional family gives Trish a unique perspective on the importance of teaching kids that everyone deserves kindness and respect.  She combined her experience as a parent, her career as a technical writer, countless hours of child psychology research, a degree in English from U.C. Berkeley, and a long-ignored passion to write something meaningful -- into a collection of DEI parenting guidebooks.  The goal of the guidebooks is not to brainwash children into a 'socialist' way of thinking, but to simply, honestly, and at an appropriate age-level, discuss and respond to children's curiosity about contemporary cultural issues.

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      How to Teach Boys to be Fair to Girls - Trish Allison

      Copyright

      While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

      HOW TO TEACH BOYS TO BE FAIR TO GIRLS

      First edition. April 2024

      Copyright © 2024 Trish Allison.

      ISBN: 9781393392033

      Written by Trish Allison.

      NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting the author’s (and publisher’s) exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.

      Introduction

      What we grow up learning and experiencing affects our entire lives, impacts how we think and behave, and informs our ingrained decision-making skills.

      If parents can raise an entire generation of boys with a more accurate understanding of girls' potential, we can really move the gender-justice needle in a lot of areas.

      The most effective way to move the needle is to ensure that the values our boys are observing at home enforce concepts like equality and empathy, not outdated gender stereotypes.

      The way you talk to your partner, divide family chores, even small things like who empties the dishwasher - make lasting impressions on how your boy considers gender justice.

      It takes time to acquire a habit and parents need to be patient with their children. Keep repeating these habits every day so the child inculcates it more promptly. Sometimes, parents are not aware what habits they should teach their children.¹

      Yes, he's influenced by his peers, but ultimately, the values that he'll carry with him throughout his life are learned at home.

      By nurturing his emotional IQ, fostering his empathy skills, explaining false gender stereotypes, providing him with positive male role models, and staying close to him as he grows, you can give your boy what he needs to become a confident, empathic person and an exceptional man.

      Finally, meaningful engagement with men and boys is increasingly recognized as a critical step to advancing gender equality. But engaging the male population is not an end in itself.

      Rather, it's about integrating efforts, non-segregated by boys vs. girls, to accomplish a common goal. Achieving this kind of synergy is what the gender-equality movement is all about in the first place.

      About This Guidebook

      A page of a guidebook

      Chapter 1

      Learn His True Opinion of Gender Equality

      Just as much as girls, boys have a significant role to play in the movement toward gender equality. We need to guide them toward a healthy understanding of their part in movement progress.

      But before we can do that, we need an accurate understanding of how boys truly feel about gender justice and how they think it affects them. To effectively engage them in the big-picture gender-equality conversation, we need to get them talking, listen to their words, and keep them involved in an ongoing two-way conversation.

      The steps in this chapter are meant to help you assess your boy’s understanding of women’s rights. Maybe he’s already well-versed in all aspects of current and past movements. Or maybe he knows very little about it and you’re starting with a blank slate.

      Either way, you’ll never know until you get him talking about it and really listen to his opinion.

      And because kids tend to shy away from face-to-face, formal discussions, the best way to learn his opinion is to listen and learn sporadically. There's no need for a one-time, sit-down, eye-to-eye conversation.

      Connect with him in any way and anywhere you can. This could be in the car, at the store, eating a meal, or watching TV together. Try

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