I Think We Can All Agree . . .

[OnlySunshine]

What will they think of next?!??!? I've never heard of such a stupid thing in all my life. This is like promoting homosexuality by saying "It's ok to be a girl even though you were born a boy" or vice versa.

[quote name='MissScripture' timestamp='1306295920' post='2245621']
Interesting...so, if they haven't told the grandparents yet, I'm guessing they're not getting any help from them with the diaper changing...
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[MissScripture]

So, how far do the decisions that they allow the kids to make go? I mean, if they can chose all this stuff, do they also get to chose what they eat? When they sleep? Kids have parents for a reason. Because they aren't adults! They need guidance!

[Teen_Catholic]

Poor kid.

[dominicansoul]

[quote name='Ed Normile' timestamp='1306298392' post='2245648']
We also kept our babies genitalia under wrap, it was a long time ago, but, I think it was called a diaper.

ed
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[Socrates]

Congratulations! It's a liberal!

[Cherie]

What a way to use their kid as a political pawn. SHAME ON THEM!

Wendy Shalit, orthodox Jewish author of [url="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Girl-Revolution-Self-Esteem-Standards/dp/0812975367/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306434003&sr=8-1"]The Good Girl Revolution[/url], (GREAT book, btw!) linked to this article on her Facebook page and had some good points:

[quote] This reminds me of an article I once wrote for Commentary about raising children in a 'gender neutral' way (back in 1999, I think the title was "Among the Gender Benders"). There was one boy who grew up feeling terribly guilty that he liked... math and horror of horrors, turned out to be heterosexual upon hitting puberty. The poor boy was sick about his having disappointed his mother. The fact is, these 'gender neutral' messages are rarely neutral; they tend to be gender-bending. Perhaps that explains why a 2 AND 5-year-old boy would both "choose" to present as girls." [/quote]

and, regarding Jazz's long hair,

[quote] There is a Jewish custom not to cut boys' hair until the age of 3 for a variety of reasons (man is compared to a tree) but I think these various customs relating to physical appearance are very different than withholding from your child (and others) that the child IS A BOY. It is one thing to want to go 'beyond gender differences' but to deny those differences in the first place, to deny who you are, is destructive psychologically. It sends the message to the child that there is something wrong with being a boy (which clearly is a message they're receiving as they're dressing like girls to please their mother). And that's just sad. More on the Jewish custom here: [url="http://www.aish.com/jl/l/b/48964501.html"]http://www.aish.com/...b/48964501.html[/url] [/quote]

and

[quote] I just read that their 5-year-old boy, Jazz, is compelled to read a workbook with purple and pink lettering, adorned with butterflies, which reads: "Help girls do boy things. Help boys do girl things. Let your kid be whoever they are!" How... can you be "whoever you are" if your starting point is always denying who you were born as? [/quote]

Wendy's Facebook page: [url="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/wendyshalit"]http://www.facebook..../#!/wendyshalit[/url]