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When looking at how social babies are, studies have similarly found that there is no significant difference between newborns’ attention to human faces versus inanimate objects.
And yet, by 4-6 months, girls are much more likely to look at and respond to faces than boys. Why is that?
One measurable difference in boy and girl infants is fussiness.
Boys tend to cry more and for longer periods of time and take longer to develop a stable sleeping pattern. Researchers have noted that parents are more likely to “shush” or ignore their boys crying than girls.
As a result, they get less social interaction than girls who are generally calmer and “easier.” It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, then, that the boys are less social.
There is nothing specifically about maleness that causes boys to be more physical and less social, but societal interactions quickly make this true – prior to puberty, at least. After puberty, males tend to be larger and stronger, but in infancy and childhood, there is very little difference.
Another interesting study found that mothers tended to ignore boys’ facial expressions of pain perhaps subconsciously encouraging them to “be tough,” while mothers tended to ignore girls’ facial expressions of anger. This is probably something none of the mothers were consciously aware of.
This is why this is such an important goal of GNP.
If we can identify areas where we may have a bias, we can direct our awareness there to overcome it or compensate for it.
Let’s look at some ways to compensate for implicit bias in our parenting:
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When looking at how social babies are, studies have similarly found that there is no significant difference between newborns’ attention to human faces versus inanimate objects.
And yet, by 4-6 months, girls are much more likely to look at and respond to faces than boys. Why is that?
One measurable difference in boy and girl infants is fussiness.
Boys tend to cry more and for longer periods of time and take longer to develop a stable sleeping pattern. Researchers have noted that parents are more likely to “shush” or ignore their boys crying than girls.
As a result, they get less social interaction than girls who are generally calmer and “easier.” It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, then, that the boys are less social.
There is nothing specifically about maleness that causes boys to be more physical and less social, but societal interactions quickly make this true – prior to puberty, at least. After puberty, males tend to be larger and stronger, but in infancy and childhood, there is very little difference.
Another interesting study found that mothers tended to ignore boys’ facial expressions of pain perhaps subconsciously encouraging them to “be tough,” while mothers tended to ignore girls’ facial expressions of anger. This is probably something none of the mothers were consciously aware of.
This is why this is such an important goal of GNP.
If we can identify areas where we may have a bias, we can direct our awareness there to overcome it or compensate for it.
Let’s look at some ways to compensate for implicit bias in our parenting:
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