I was brought up believing it was one rule for girls and another for boys.
And as a Muslim girl, the rules were stricter – covering from how I sat and spoke, to who I could mix with and talk to.
I was the weaker sex. Inferior.
And, yes, some people might roll their eyes and dismiss it as PC-brigade nonsense.
But I wish gender-neutral parenting had been around when I was a kid.
I might then have been spared a lifetime of sexist treatment and discrimination in the workplace.
So I admire Jake England-Johns and Hobbit Humphrey who spoke out this week about parenting their 17-month-old child Anoush as gender-neutral.
The “neutral” refers to them trying to behave neutrally towards Anoush, rather than trying to make them neutral, Jake insists.
Children raised this way have equal access to toys, opportunities and ambitions. So dress your baby boys in pink, buy your girls trucks.
Let boys cry and show emotion. Let girls be opinionated, not “bossy”.
Gender-neutral parenting is catching on because it makes sense.
Celebs such as Paloma Faith and Kate Hudson adopt this approach.
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