Gender Roles

I think this article makes a good point. That parents are not the only role models factoring into this situation. Friends and kids that are around the same age as you start realizing what is right and what is wrong. In this case, this young boy was dead set on being a princess, dressing like a princess, wearing pink, and coloring all the time. Without the parents intervening themselves into the boy's development process, they let him be. he turned out to slowly realize that colors play a gender role in society. It's not like he hates princesses and coloring now, he just has a better understanding for the stereotypes that follow with certain colors in society.