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Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set
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Sex education should start fairly early in a child's life. It should not be taboo unless the idea is to repress...
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and then.....the grandparents
Personally I'm disgusted by this. It really does show that the modern world is deeply sinful and is beyond redemption. God needs to make another flood then start from scratch with an elect few. I don't want to live in a world where people are free to unashamedly display such insanity.
Everyone knows that Lego is an uncountable noun and thus cannot be pluralised to "Legos" which is a nonsense term only favoured by degenerates
I use LEGOs all the time. It's obviously deeply wrong, but I just find the reaction of my wife amusing.
I reckon my kids were about 8 or 9?
Actually, that would be pretty awesome.
Mt Olympus and the Greek Gods would look banging in Lego.
Heh...fair to say we've been open with our kids. I'll PM you one you might find amusing...or horrifying, but probably amusing.
I was able to explain to my nephew what gay/bi was without discussing sex at all.
He was like 5 at the time.
Hell I remember learning about it in health class before we tackled sex Ed. Mostly my exposure was through movies and TV though, if I’m honest
Even books. I remember the Harry Potter fandom assumed Dumbledore was gay. I think because he always dressed flamboyantly, I dunno
My kids had a lesbian couple with a kid in their three year old kinder. They asked, we explained. They didn't even raise an eyebrow.
No it shouldn't. 5 year olds don't need sex education. They need to learn how to read. Sex Ed usually starts at the onset of puberty and that makes sense. Let kids be kids.
Completely disagree with comparison of LGBTQ to BDSM, unless couples are gonna wander around the streets in gimp suits.
Just as I'd handle religious questions (despite not being religious) or sex or drug questions, so too do we handle questions about LGBTQ. Honestly, some people have strange ideas about how possible it is to 'shelter' kids, or how desirable it is to do so.
Our country just went through a very public discussion on marriage equality. Our kids know openly gay people. They've seen transgender people in the streets. You better believe they have opinions and thoughts on it.
The questions about this...like literally every other topic you can imagine...are a given. You control only how you respond.
I don't see why it has to be a 'thing' though. Isn't it enough that we teach kids to respect people and leave it at that? I grew up in a small village and there was a local lesbian couple and no-one cared. The kids didn't care. The adults didn't care. We just got on with our lives.
Tweens. So 11-12. That's when I'd put it. When kids start caring about this stuff, generally.
ChristineM said 'fairly early' in a child's life.
Meanwhile I grew up in a country so *** puckered that they censored gay and lesbian couples out of Sailor Moon because they thought kids shouldn't even be aware of the existence of gay people. The virtue signaling (literally) was that LGBT should only exist in silence or not at all. Up until recently, schools would fire any known gay teachers of minors if it got out they were gay. And there's still pressure to only see homosexuality as other, whereas heterosexual people depicted is a okay for kids.
Yeah corporate wokeness is obnoxious. But not as obnoxious as the freakouts whenever a rainbow gets put on something.
We inhabit a different universe, it seems. Europe is just very different.
Thank goodness the grandparents live 1000 miles away in another country
Yes please,
I said fairly early, mine have all began discussing sex at around age 7, there is no way i would inhibit their knowledge. And have always been open and honest with them. Saves them trying for themselves and messing up their lives
Kids will be kids, even if that means they want to grow up sometimes
It wasn't 'a thing'. I literally treated it like every other thing.
I didn't make a special box for LGBTQ. Why would I? I could give two rats about it.
Well, that's what I'm saying. Just let kids see it, say nothing unless they ask, and go about one's day.