Promoting egalitarian relationships helps children build healthy and respectful relationships and develop their full potential. In the long term, it protects children against sexual violence. Your everyday life is already full of small acts that can help prevent the transmission of gender stereotypes. Learn about them in this section.
In your conversations with your child, you can help them understand that girls and boys can like the same colours and activities, feel the same emotions, and so on. Here are a few topics to reflect on and talk about .
Did you know that the only difference between a little girl and a little boy is their private parts?
There are no girl colours or boy colours. Boys can like purple and pink, and girls can like blue, red and green.
Girls and boys are all strong, they run fast and can all want to be heroes and heroines.
Boys are allowed to play at cooking and with dolls as much as girls are.
Girls are allowed to play with tiny cars and trucks as much as boys are.
There are no girl feelings and boy feelings. Girls are allowed to be angry and boys are allowed to cry.
There are no girl jobs or boy jobs. Girls and boys can be what they want when they grow up: teachers, police officers, cooks, scientists, dinosaur researchers, ballet dancers….
You As Me is a picture book aimed at young children aged from birth to 2. It shows that babies are all similar regardless of their sex. Marvin Disappeared is a book to help kids think about egalitarian relationships between the sexes through Justine’s story.
Sex education is part of young children’s everyday world. Learn about simple acts that can help prevent sexual violence.
When you talk about privacy, you can recognize various kinds of interpersonal relationships, identify personal space (boundaries), and learn how to ask for those boundaries to be respected.
Sexual violence, even without physical contact, leads to devastating consequences for children and teens.
Learn how to receive a sexual violence disclosure and report a situation.
