https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 21:29:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999286 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:26:52 +0000 autumnlove 1999286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 2.5! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999277 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:21:56 +0000 erinpye 1999277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oldest DD has known there are boys and girls and they are different, since before 2. She hasn't picked up on stereotyped gender roles much yet at 2.5, because I try very hard not to enforce them at home, and she's not in school yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999124 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:42:10 +0000 yoursilverlining 1999124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 2.5 and knows there are boys and girls (and can correctly identify a boy vs a girl), but doesn't have any idea about genital differences yet. She also doesn't have any gender stereotyping yet; at least none that she has shared with us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999116 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:34:46 +0000 Mrs. Chocolate 1999116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Drake has been aware of girls and boys since around 3 Id say. He is in a real big I like girls phase and almost always says he loves girls and not boys. He sometimes tells his daddy he doesnt love him because he is a boy, which of course we are working on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999114 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:29:49 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1999114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty early... I'd say sometime between 2.5 to 3. She would say things like "XYZ character is a boy bc he doesn't have any eyelashes" or "I get pink because I'm a girl", etc. I think they're surrounded by messages of gender everywhere we look, even in the subtlest of ways. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999108 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:24:15 +0000 BeachMama 1999108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometime in the past few months DD (2.5) has really gotten a handle on gender. Like the other day we were sitting somewhere and she was saying, "there's a boy and there's a girl and there's a boy...." Or someone will walk by and she'll say "That's a man!" She doesn't seem to have gotten much of the stereotypes yet (girls wear pink, etc.) I think that just comes from society, school, grandparents, friends, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999033 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:40:24 +0000 Astro Bee 1999033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That is what worries me, that despite all our teaching about equality they will pick up on artificial gender roles (i.e., only girls wear pink and only boys play with superheroes) from somewhere else. How do you even combat this? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999029 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:37:09 +0000 MamaBehr 1999029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine are, but I have a 4 year old girl and a 2 year old boy. They once got into an argument over what was "more fun" to have, penises or vaginas. That was a moment I intend to share with their prom dates. I ended the argument by just saying they are different (and by fun they just meant better, but man oh man did I have to bit my tongue)<br /> My daughter also likes to count the girls and boys in our family and she is very disappointed that there are more boys than girls (we have two boys, her, my husband and myself). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999026 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:30:58 +0000 mamabolt 1999026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2.5 year old became aware a few months ago, but just in a "I'm a girl and mommy is a girl and daddy is a boy" way. She doesn't seem to have any ideas about how they are different yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1999014 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:49:17 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1999014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our daughter is aware of it starting around age 3. But not in a sexual way yet or anything. She hasn't said anything when watching change her brothers diaper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-kids-become-aware-of-gender#post-1998950 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 14:31:20 +0000 mrbee 1998950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our son started kindergarten this year and apparently picked up the concept of boys versus girls somewhere either in class or in his afterschool program.</p> <p>Yesterday he told us that the boy (him) was sitting behind the boy (me) and the girl (his sister) was sitting behind the girl (Bee). Fairly innocuous, but he's also been telling us what things boys can't do (wear pink) and what things girls can't do (play with superheroes). We're talking through the issues, but where does this stuff come from?!</p> <p>When did your kids become aware of gender? </p>