Three behaviours girls adopt from their parents

Parents play an important role in teaching their kids how to behave and act in a given situation. This is what shapes their personality when they grow up. What you speak and how you act, all are engraved in their memories forever and they follow the same pattern when they grow up. But when it comes to gender expectations, boys and girls get different sets of messages from grown-ups. Gender disparity is a sad reality of our society. While some things like boys don't cry and girls do not laugh loudly are often spoken about, there are some which are perceived by the actions.

According to a 2020 study published in the Journal Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, parents' behaviour differs depending on the gender of the kid. Based on 45 previous studies, the researchers concluded that parents unconsciously behave differently in the case of their sons and daughters. They may support gender equality openly, yet may act along gendered lines. As a result, the impact of non-verbal communication is more on kids as compared to the message being openly conveyed to them. Here are three ways parents' behaviours differ in the case of daughters, which has a deep impact on them.

That's right! In comparison to sons, parents talk more about social issues with their daughters, while they prefer to discuss learning topics like science with their boys. That unconsciously sends a clear message that girls need to pay attention to social issues, while boys need to focus on learning. This finding was published in a 2003 British study, conducted to look into parent-child conversations about science. They examined the talking pattern of over 50 parent-child combinations researchers and found that parents consider that talking about science with daughters could bore them.

Even when it comes to displaying emotions girls are always considered sad, while boys are always angry. The study published in the American Psychological Association (APA) based on a thorough observation of 217 stated that parents attribute the emotions of boys and girls differently. What is more surprising is that parents do not even know that they are differentiating between their kids. This is something that they have experienced in their childhood and unconsciously practise it on their kids. As a result, their kids also learn the same thing.

Another sheer example of gender disparity is how parents play with their kids at home. Studies suggest that they often rough play with their boys as compared to their girls. Rough play means there is more tickling, poking, and tumbling, in the case of sons as compared to daughters. Another surprising fact is that fathers engage more in it as compared to mothers. In the case of girls, they engage in more peaceful sports and activities.