Unknowingly, parents teach their children about gender simply by choosing colors for them. Even at birth, society greets a baby boy or girl with blue or pink respectively, and as children grow gendered colors become gendered toys. As Jennifer Goodwin explains in her article “Even Nine-Month-Olds Choose Gender-Specific Toys,” when a nine-month-old is given a bunch of toys, they will choose the toy that was considered correct for them, such as boy and a girl's toy truck and a doll. The test raised a troubling question: “So does this mean that boys and girls have an innate preference for certain types of objects?” (88). Does this mean we are hardwired to know “gender”? The question suggests doubts about what humanity has always believed. However, the theory is flawed as it states, “Children… are extraordinary sponges and learn a great deal in nine months” (88). This means that children are blank slates, catching everything their parents do. Without knowing it, parents are teaching our youth about gender, like a mother who goes to her child when he cries, without even noticing that a parent leaves for work. Even when children grow up, when they get 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, leaving my mother one