Unknowingly, parents teach their children about gender by simply choosing colors for them. Even at birth, society welcomes a newborn boy or girl with blue or pink, respectively, and as children grow, gender-specific colors become gender-specific toys. As Jennifer Goodwin explains in her article “Even Nine-Month-Olds Choose Gender-Specific Toys,” that when a nine-month-old was given a bunch of toys, he would choose the one that was considered gender-appropriate. , like like a boy and a toy truck and a girl and a doll. The test raised a worrying question: "So does this mean that boys and girls have an innate preference for certain types of objects?" » (88). Does this mean we are programmed to know “gender”? The question suggests doubts about what humanity has always believed. Yet the theory has flaws, as she states: “Babies…are incredible sponges and learn a lot in nine months” (88). This means babies are blank slates, capturing everything their parents do. Without knowing it, parents teach our young people about gender, like a mother who goes to her baby when he cries, or even the announcement of a parent leaving to go to work. Even when children grow up, when they are hurt, they go to their mother, and when they need serious advice, they go to their father. When I was younger, around age six, my father left, making my mother a