By Sarah Freeland
Take a good long look at your child, boy, or girl, lying in the crib or on the couch asleep. Ask yourself, "What makes my baby any different than anyone else's?" While you are at it, also ask yourself, "Do I want my child to grow up to be one of the crowd?" So often, children are taught from birth that to be different is wrong. Oh, we do not intentionally teach our children this, yet we brand them with the same hairstyle and same clothing as the rest of the children their age. We do this because we want our children to be normal. However, are we making them normal, or are we making them a clone of the rest of the world?
Take the color of your infants clothing for example. If you have a boy, there is a very good chance that the majority of his clothing in his drawer or closet is the color of blue. If you are blessed with a daughter, pink will define the majority of her outfits. Check your closets. We would lay money on this.
Are we saying that you should make the boy wear pink and the girl wear blue? We would never go to that extreme. To be honest, have you ever considered not dressing them in either? For years blue has been the color for boys and pink for girls. What if you were to dress your child in green? Perhaps you should try purple? What would people say?
First, if you are worried that much about what other people would say, then you are truly teaching your child to be a follower as opposed to a leader. Teach the child early on in life that being different is okay. The more successful individuals are those who grow up with parents that orient them more towards being trendsetters. If you will notice, in every group of teenagers, for example, there will be one that seems to be the leader. All the other kids mimic his or her hairstyle. They wear the clothes that this person began wearing first. They mimic the jewelry and make-up. This is due to the fact that these kids were raised to believe that they could be different, and that it was okay, even desirable.
Raise your child to be the leader of the pack. Teach them early that just because they hold a certain sociological label, such as boy or girl, does not mean that they have to subscribe to what every boy or girl do, say, and/or looks like.
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