Saving for a daughter but not a son

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"Sometimes my wife and I discuss what it would take to raise our children with true gender equality, the kind that progressive parents are supposed to achieve, the kind they talked about in the 1970s. I think it would require us to move to the moon."

This. We do the best we can with our daughter, but then she comes home from preschool with ideas like "Frozen is for girls, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are for boys" or "pink is for girls, black is for boys." Counterprogramming feels like a full-time job.

Counterprogramming your child in a cosmopolitan society is a sisyphean task. It's as hopeless for a social liberal to combat the prevailing spirit of the times as it is for a religious conservative. Children build their social world around their peers, not their parents.

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