{"id":125,"date":"2008-10-18T18:38:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T01:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-09-27T18:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T01:39:20","slug":"samedifferent-ways-preschoolers-perceive-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Same\/Different:  Ways Preschoolers Perceive People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As your child grows, she becomes more sophisticated in noticing and classifying the people she encounters every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0At 2 to 3 years old, she may:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0notice and ask about other people&#8217;s physical characteristics, although she is still more interested in her own<\/li>\n<li>notice other children&#8217;s specific cultural acts: Elena speaks differently from me; Mei eats with chopsticks<\/li>\n<li>exhibit fears about skin color differences and physical disabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 4, he may:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>show more interest in how he is like and different from other children; construct &#8220;theories&#8221; about what causes physical and cultural differences<\/li>\n<li>begin to classify people into groups by physical characteristics (same gender, same color, same eye shape)<\/li>\n<li>be confused about the meaning of adult categories for what &#8220;goes together.&#8221; For example, how can a light-skinned child have a dark-skinned parent? Why are children called &#8220;black&#8221; when their skin isn&#8217;t black?<\/li>\n<li>show influence of societal norms in his interactions with others (&#8220;Girls can&#8217;t do this; boys can&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 5, she may:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>show an awareness of additional characteristics, such as socioeconomic class and age<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate heightened awareness of themselves and others as members of a family, as well as curiosity about how families of other children and teachers live: How can Sara have two mommies?<\/li>\n<li>continue to construct theories to classify or explain differences among classmates<\/li>\n<li>continue to absorb and use stereotypes to define others, and to tease or reject other children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 6, he may:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have absorbed much of his family&#8217;s classification systems for people, but still get confused about why specific people are put into one or another category by adults<\/li>\n<li>use prevailing biases, based on aspects of identity, against other children<\/li>\n<li>begin to understand that others also have ethnic identities and that there are various lifestyles, as they come to understand their own emerging group identity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As your child grows, she becomes more sophisticated in noticing and classifying the people she encounters every day. \u00c2\u00a0At 2 to 3 years old, she may: \u00c2\u00a0notice and ask about other people&#8217;s physical characteristics, although she is still more interested in her own notice other children&#8217;s specific cultural acts: Elena speaks differently from me; Mei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,22,10,16,15,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}