Do you think you treat boys and girls the same?

As a teacher, I always thought I did. However, I was working as an aide in a kindergarten room (many, many moons ago), and I was assigned to this one pretty, long haired blond girl. She wore a braided choker every day, and a bracelet. We had worked together for three days, when…it came to my attention that “she” was really a boy. You know what? It hit home hard that I DO treat them differently, because as soon as I realized he was a boy, and not a girl, my interaction with him became firmer. My expectations were…different. Actually, I was more aggressive and less lenient in my dealings with him after that. It was a real eye opener.