Note: I have removed all the names from the original article in this assembly plan
What do you see in the picture, what is happening?
When this Mum was pregnant, all the scans showed the baby to be a girl. The family prepared to have a girl.
How do you think they prepared?
How do you think having a baby girl is different to having a baby boy? (this is a great question to debate - remind the children that in this discussion there are no right or wrong answers, there are just opinions and ideas; we should listen to the different ideas in the debate and consider our own responses.)
The Mum and her family held a gender reveal party for the baby and spent £200 on pink clothes, pink bows and baby items. The nursery was painted in "girl colours".
Then, just six weeks before the baby girl was due, doctors realised the baby was actually a boy. Mum and her partner were shocked because they had expected a girl. Mum says, "I spent my whole pregnancy preparing to have a daughter. We'd named her and bought loads of pink baby grows and cute personalised things for her nursery."
"Luckily most of the big items like the cot and wardrobe were neutral colours."
Mum says she loves her son now; "Our little boy is perfect and I can't imagine it being any other way now."
Mum says she has kept all the pink clothes in case she has a baby girl one day.
- What is gender?
- what is a gender reveal party, why do people often have a gender reveal party when they are going to have a baby?
- What is a gender stereotype?
- what do gender reveal parties reveal about assumptions and gender stereotypes today even before a baby is born?
- "The nursery was painted in "girl colours". Are there girl colours?
- What are neutral colours?
- Who decides whether a colour is neutral? Are there rules about this?
- "We'd named her and bought loads of pink baby grows and cute personalised things for her nursery." I wonder if Mum was expecting a boy, how would things have been differently prepared? What does this show us about gender expectations in 2023?
- If someone bought Leanne a blue baby grow for her daughter, what do you think the reaction would be?
- Do gender stereotypes like this matter? Do they affect children or is it just a bit of celebratory fun for adults that has no lasting effect?
- How might gender stereotypes affect young children as they grow up?
- Mum has kept all the pink clothes in case she has a baby girl one day - what is your message to Mum?
- Some trans people have their own gender reveal parties later in life - why?
- What can we do in school to challenge gender stereotypes and make sure all children know they can be their authentic selves? (what does that mean?)
- How is this story related to British law/ The Equality act?
- Which British Values are referenced in this story?
- why is this about No Outsiders?
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