{"id":158,"date":"2008-01-13T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-01-13T21:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T04:10:05","slug":"boys-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/boys-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while Ruby was in the bath, I was reading a magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wondertime.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wondertime<\/a>). She happened to look at a page with a big advertisement and said, &#8220;brown! boy!&#8221; It was a picture of a boy with brown hair. I wasn&#8217;t surprised that she got the color right, but found it interesting that she was able to identify that it was a picture of a boy. I didn&#8217;t realize she had already picked up on that distinction.<\/p>\n<p>So, I paged through the magazine and, for every picture of a child (baby through about 7), I asked her if it was a boy or a girl. She was correct more often than not. I noticed that for more androgynous kids (usually babies), she was likely to say they were a girl. Most of the more obvious (to me) ones she got wrong were long-haired girls. Later, I looked through the pictures a few times and tried to discern a pattern, but I couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve raised her, so far, without obvious gender cues like wearing pink. I tend to refer to other children as a &#8220;kid&#8221; rather than a &#8220;boy&#8221; or a &#8220;girl.&#8221; And yet she&#8217;s still managed to crack the code of who is a boy and who is a girl, without much help from her parents. It&#8217;s pretty amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while Ruby was in the bath, I was reading a magazine (Wondertime). She happened to look at a page with a big advertisement and said, &#8220;brown! boy!&#8221; It was a picture of a boy with brown hair. I wasn&#8217;t surprised that she got the color right, but found it interesting that she was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}