Pink Brain, Blue Brain - thinking about gender and education without panic

[ishai_wallace]

About a week ago I included a quote from Lise Eliot's Pink Brain Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps - and What We Can Do About It, at the time, I promised more about this book, and well, now is the time. First off, this book was the antidote I needed after reading both of Leonard Sax's books. This is also a book about how

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[ishai_wallace]

I would totally recommend reading her book - you know, when you have time. She talks about this in the third chapter, Learning Through Play in the Preschool Years. Basically, many children engage in a period of gender identification and differentiation between two and six that is all about absolutes. She ends the chapter with lots of concrete ways to help them be less absolute.