Through these last two chapters a lot has been discussed on the topics of child cognitive development and how we learn at different stages in our life and how our learnings affect the way we will react towards different ideas and social situations.
The way we learn and perceive things throughout our life absolutely fascinates me, the fact that we can go from such a small primitive version of ourselves to highly intelligent creatures unlike anything our earth has seen is astounding. The rate at which we learn about the world around us and create ideas and theories like little Einstein scientist at such a small age makes me wonder how much children really understand and how much our conversations and actions really effect children, even if at a subconscious level. I can see how a lot of people would argue with Piaget's theory since it does seem as if children's mental abilities are downplayed and that environment can effect learning abilities and the way we learn things differently. I can see just between my friend and families children that each has there own unique quirks of how they interpret the world around them.
Another topic that really interested me was gender typing not only by children themselves or their parents, but the social environment as a whole. Just the difference between a toy car and a doll gift creates a gender difference and possibly a whole different way of perceiving the world as a young boy or girl. Also that the fathers were more likely than mothers to treat children differently, since the mothers are the ones that bond first I always thought that they would maybe be more in tune with the gender than the fathers and have the most stark difference in ways they handle gender differences.
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