Here’s a thought: Instead of filling your daughter’s head with nonsensical fairytales, how about filling it with real-world factsscience!and see if you can’t foster a love for a subject that’s still and notoriously more encouraged in boys. Russell writes about her lifelong disinterest in sciencea result of bad teachers, the inaccessibility of the subject and what she assumed was a missing brain function that made it hard for her to connect with the material. Though you might not guess this from Russell’s piece, we can’t all run out and get ourselves a science husband, nor can all of us find a way to make, say, hedge funds sound intriguing if we just work on our narrative yarn-weaving skills.
Here’s a thought: Instead of filling your daughter’s head with nonsensical fairytales, how about filling it with real-world factsscience!and see if you can’t foster a love for a subject that’s still and notoriously more encouraged in boys. This is the subject of an essay by Wendy Thomas Russell at PBS NewsHour, and it is a great idea. Mostly.
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