Twitter discusses feminist parenting and it's a conversation we all needed desperately

How does one parent children to so as to not have them fall prey to the gender biasing trap? How does one parent a feminist?

The gender bias we know today does not come hard-coded in our psyche while we develop in wombs. It starts at birth; from home. Right when parents start deciding what colour should your walls or clothes be, or which toys you should play with, based on gender, we start internalising gender inequality. While utterly discounting the gender non-binary, parents often teach their children about the things women should do and how they are different from the things expected of men. That’s how they were brought up and that’s what they know of parenting. The question is, how does one parent children to so as to not have them fall prey to the gender biasing trap? How does one parent a feminist?

While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did manage to explain the duties one has in shaping children to advocate for gender equality in his essay on raising kids to be feminists, the discussion needs more exposition.

People on Twitter recently started exploring the subject of feminist parenting and it is the discourse we have desperately required all this time. Talking about how their parents came through for them when gender bias enveloped society, people cite the things which help us step back from oppressing our daughters.

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It is important to understand that when it comes to raising one’s kids as feminists, no change is too small. Even if it’s restraining oneself from teaching gender bias to kids like we always have been.

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