Here are nine child-rearing tips that can help you feel more fulfilled as a parent.

1. Boosting Your Child’s Self-Esteem.
2. Catch Kids Being Good.
3. Set Limits and Be Consistent With Your Discipline.
4. Make Time for Your Kids.
5. Be a Good Role Model.
6. Make Communication a Priority.
7. Be Flexible and Willing to Adjust Your Parenting Style.

Mothers were rated as more responsible for their children’s internalizing behavior problems, and fathers were rated as more responsible for their children’s externalizing behavior problems. Perceptions of mothers’ and fathers’ responsibility for their children’s prosocial behaviors did not differ.

Women tend to be more authoritative (flexible) in parenting style and more emotionally responsive. Men seem to be more playful and less tuned in. They tend to be polarized in their parenting style — either permissive or authoritarian.

Permissive parents are not demanding. Kids do not have many responsibilities and are allowed to regulate their behavior and the majority of their choices. When a parent is permissive, they look at their child as equal rather than children of a parent.

Studies have found that parents are biased in their parenting styles depending on the child’s gender. Authoritarian parenting, especially physical punishment, is mostly used for boys while girls, on the other hand, are given more reasoning (McKee et al., 2007; Russell et al., 1998).

Environmental factors and parental influences Parents may encourage children to participate in gender stereotypical play, such as girls playing with dolls and boys playing with trucks. Parents may also model gender normative behavior, both unintentionally and intentionally.

Although parents can have an influence on children’s gender development, their impact can sometimes be overestimated. Because gender is a social category that organizes virtually every segment of society, there are multiple sources of socialization in children’s gender development.

Gender stereotyping refers to the practice of ascribing to an individual woman or man specific attributes, characteristics, or roles by reason only of her or his membership in the social group of women or men.

Gender stereotypes are the psychological traits believed to be more characteristic of one sex relative to the other. These stereotypes are closely related to sex role ideologies, and they have often been used to account for variations in sex role ideologies across cultures.

What are the negative impacts of gender stereotypes? Gender stereotypes shape self-perception, attitudes to relationships and influence participation in the world of work. In a school environment, they can affect a young person’s classroom experience, academic performance, subject choice and well-being.

What are gender roles? Gender roles in society means how we’re expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex. For example, girls and women are generally expected to dress in typically feminine ways and be polite, accommodating, and nurturing.

Another example of a well-known stereotype involves beliefs about racial differences among athletes. As Hodge, Burden, Robinson, and Bennett (2008) point out, Black male athletes are often believed to be more athletic, yet less intelligent, than their White male counterparts.

10 Examples of Gender Inequality in the World

• Lack of Mobility.
• Freedom of Marriage.
• Discriminatory Divorce Rights.
• Citizenship.
• Frontline Combat.
• Custody Rights.
• Violence.
• Professional Obstacles.

Gender norms influence women to perform behaviors in stereotypically less masculine ways, and men to perform them in stereotypically more masculine ways. Accordingly, if masculine performance increases testosterone, men’s stereotypically more masculine performance of behavior may lead to more increases in testosterone.

Despite females and males having similar levels of capabilities in maths and science, the academic choices of girls don’t often reflect their ability. A US study on gender stereotypes found that ‘common stereotypes associate high-level intellectual ability (brilliance, genius) with men more than women.

From elementary school through college, girls are more disciplined about their schoolwork than boys; they study harder and get better grades. Girls consistently outperform boys academically. And yet, men nonetheless hold a staggering 95 percent of the top positions in the largest public companies.

Same-sex classes have long been available in private schools, but there are currently only 25 same-sex public high schools in the country. Supporters of same-sex education say having boys and girls in separate classrooms allows them to focus less on each other and more on their schoolwork.

More critically, researchers say, gender roles are learned at an early age through socialization with caregivers at home, school and elsewhere—and that can amplify health and cultural problems as boys and girls grow into adulthood.

For girls, those risks can include child marriage, pregnancy, leaving school early, sexually transmitted infections and exposure to violence. Boys suffer, too, from increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and shorter life expectancy than women – especially if they try to challenge masculine norms.

Another US study found that male sex was one of the attributes associated with a lower likehood of being diagnosed with a mental health problem by primary care physicians. Women may face greater disability than men be cause of the higher prevalence of depressive and anx i e ty dis or ders.

Negative effects of peer pressure include:

• pressure to use alcohol, cigarettes or drugs.
• pressure to engage in risk taking behaviours.
• distraction from schoolwork.
• distance between family and existing friends.
• drastic changes in behaviour and attitudes.