Libraries have sensitively written books on topics that their classmates cope with daily. Avoid stereotypes within your own family. Expect sons as well as daughters to help with household chores, such as laundry and dishes. Encourage daughters to excel at subjects, such as science and math, and to participate in sports. Help your children develop self-confidence.
Insecure people are more likely to be obsessed with conformity.
Self-worth will also help children handle insults and bias from others. Share with your children how you coped when treated unfairly. They need to understand there are some mean people in this world, but this meanness and ignorance has nothing to do with your child's worth. You and your child might volunteer at a community center for another culture. Teach English, your special skill, or share a hobby.