After recently watching ‘The Secret life of 4 year olds’  I have noticed that children of this age are well aware of gender and the differences that they face because of their gender, The children were given a task in which there were to be two teams that would take part. The objective of the game was to put a bean bag on their head and, without touching it or holding it, they were to get from one end of the garden to the other without the bean bag falling off.  The teacher that took these children for this game chose a captain for each group, one boy and one girl. It was interesting to see that the teams were then quickly divided into a boys and a girls team by the children.  Once the game started the girls were adamant on playing by the rules and didn’t want to hold on to the bean bag as they were fully aware of the rules and didn’t want to break them. However, the boys were not concerned for the rules whatsoever. Their objective was to win at any cost. In result of this the girls were slower and more careful with how they moved as they wanted to obey by the rules. Almost every single one of the boys held the bean bag to their head and ran as fast as they could because they were so determined to win.

I found this very interesting how the boys and the girls made a clear choice that they wanted a girls team and a boys team. Which relates back to one of my earlier posts on gender. There is an obvious divide in gender still and boys and girls still do see themselves differently to one another. Also it was interesting to see they way the girls and boys acted in this task given. All of the girls wanted to obey by the rules and the boys were completely focussed on winning that they didn’t care at all about the rules that were in place. I find it extremely interesting how gender had played a part in this task and how differently both genders reacted to the task in hand.