Psychologist, Peter Gray had stated. “Children come into the world exquisitely designed, and strongly motivated, to educate themselves. They don’t need to be forced to learn; in fact, coercion undermines their natural desire to learn.” Peter Gray is saying is that, no matter what a child will always learn something and with though those experiences they will grow preferences and with those preferences they will soon find a career that they will succeed in. Society today is setting out “rules” and “regulations” for children, how they suppose to act a certain way according to their gender, yet these “rules” could have impact on their future. Children are our future, and what parents do for their kids now definitely has an impact on the children’s future, such as the toys kids play with has different importance, boys usually play with building blocks while the girls play with dolls. The differences between boys’and girls’ toys affect the preferences in the future for career choices. There are many differences between both the boy and the girl toys, there’s even aisles that separate them both to get the message clear that boys are suppose to play with this and girls are supposed to play with this. “It's nearly impossible to escape these messages at any time of the year; with …show more content…
Giving a boy a doll won’t be harmful like giving a girl building blocks won’t be harmful as well. “Seeing my children navigate their identities has been a learning process for me.” (Jenn M. Jackson, The Washington Post 16). “As soon as my daughters got to the point where they could communicate their desires and feelings, that's when I could see that there is something more than patriarchy behind the idea that there are "typical" gender differences.” As kids grow up they will naturally start have their own preferences when they are exposed to new things. (Andy Hinds, The Daily Beast