Borderlines of Childhood



On my second trip of service learning at MLK, children’s expressed gender tells us that kids are more oriented within their sex. Boys communicate very little with girls and there is little or no dating or couples, back even to a few years or in history, there seem to be a lot more relationships especially at early ages. Boys interact with boys more than they do with girls and girls interact with girls more than boys, and it is something that has changed because through the years in history, we have established freedom in America and the right for our autonomy to be the way we want it to. There is still some communication between sexes and expressed gender like gestures is really alive, but it is primarily composed of two separate groups of guys and girls and, do typical activities between their sex like dancing or playing tag. Guys prefer to compete with one another while girls like to gossip. Back in the 1800s, women and men had different roles they had to take like working or cleaning, and contributed to gender gaps they experienced which meant that women and men had to marry early or manage a family. Kids today have adopted an inter-related gender within their sex which for early teens can be considered dependent within their sex on the way they behave. In a way, their behavior is limited by not using all the freedom they have and developing a cross-sex gender environment because their language adapts to their gender and use words like “Dude, buddy” or “Girl, girlfriend” where initially it is better to expand into a more diverse communicative pattern to establish our real identity.