Gender

As a child, I was the a mix between a girly girl, and a tom boy. I loved dressing up in pretty clothes, being nice and clean, and playing with my barbies and baby dolls, but I also loved playing outside, swimming in the lake we lived on, and building mud forts at the shore of the water. There are so many different influences on the gender of a child, and they include: biological influences, referring to the actual genetic prototype that a boy or girl has, social influences, referring to parents and peers, and cognitive influences, referring to what children see and want to imitate.