Throughout our society, homophobia and heterosexism permeate
the world of young children through various books, movies, toys, stores,
culture of early childhood centers, and schools by only encouraging heterosexual
relationships. For example, children’s
toys tend to be gender specific that focus on boys doing more hands-on
activities to promote masculinity and girls toys that focus on nurturing and cleaning. In early childhood centers, the visual aids
in the classroom environment tend to show women taking care of others; whereas,
the men are displayed by working in construction or working with some form of
tools. These various bias in children’s learning
environment are only encouraging one life style that is created by the dominate
culture of society. I am completely against
allowing the dominate culture to determine what is in the best interest of
children during early development due to the fact that children should be free
to explore all aspects of society and not be sheltered from ideas that are different
from the dominate culture. In my
opinion, people who are against exposing children to homosexuality are doing it
out of fear because they believe by exposing children to such ideas will
determine their sexuality. These conclusions
are false and we as early childhood professionals should share with families
and their children the realities of early development as an attempt to be a
better resource for children and their families.
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