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4 &, researchers have found that parents communicate differently with sons and daughters. Parents
gn” use a greater number and variety of emotion words when talking with daughters than sons. They
also talk more about sadness with daughters, whereas they talk more about anger with sons” (79).
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people we are and what personslity traits woee are teaching their daughters to be
more attentive to others’ feelings and to interpersonal relationships, while they are teaching boys
to be assertive, but unemotional except when expressing anger” (79). Parents are creating
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react a certain way by their parents. Parents are teaching their children that boys need to be
‘unemotional and tough while girls have to be emotional and nurturing, “Girls’ rooms reflected
traditional conceptions of femininity, especially in terms of domesticity and motherhood. They
contained an abundance of baby dolls and related items (e.g., dal! houses) as well as miniature
appliances (e.g., toy stoves). Few of these items were found in boys’ rooms, where, instead there)
were military toys and athletic equipment” (80). Just by the types of toys parents buy for their «
children they are already shaping their children’s minds to conform to what social identity they \
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