Beginning with newborn babies, as they grow they communicate through crying.  Does it make any difference if the baby is a boy or a girl?  When babies are hungry, need a diaper change or just want to be held, they cry.  Boy and girl babies experience the same feelings; they react and express themselves in the same manner, without the distinction of being male or female.  Thus the separation of feelings according to gender come later.

The most important time in the life of a child is between birth and the age of five.  During this period the child's main source of knowledge is acquired through the home environment.  Some people place children in day care centers or some type of preschool facility.  This will expose them to environments other than a home environment at ages prior to the age of five.

What is the first thing we ask when a baby is born?  "Is it a boy or girl?"  That is what everyone wants to know.  Even before the baby is born people try to determine sexual gender.  Because we adults place so much value and distinction on sexual gender our children are raised to react and view things accordingly.

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