Children learn values through the way we do things as a family. We plan games, songs and crafts. It's a time when no one has other appointments. I love that time. It tells us that our family is a priority.
Children learn values and beliefs through their exposure to the larger world.
Through friends, extended family, books, TV and the experiences they have in their community, children absorb values and societal norms. And I happened to know for a fact that the only doctors Melissa had ever been to had been women. Yet every time she overheard a conversation about doctors, they were referred to as men. Every book she read about doctors showed men. I thought my doctor was a woman' was challenged by the greater authority of her aunt and the accumulated weight of images from world around her.