A Lego toy is hardly formal education.
Most kids begin asking well before their teens and formal sex education classes begin which i believe should be within plenty of time to prepare them for pubity
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Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set
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A Lego toy is hardly formal education.
Most kids begin asking well before their teens and formal sex education classes begin which i believe should be within plenty of time to prepare them for pubity
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I agree, but I'm not talking about this. I'm talking about classroom stuff.
I started at the beginning.
Even classroom stuff at least should include some basics as soon as kids become aware. Some parents won't do it, so the fall back should be the classroom, not some dark back alley and experimenting
My older cousin introduced me to his then boyfriend when I was like 9. I remember he bought all us kids ice cream so we gave our blessings lol
It doesn't take much;-)
Haha I remember that. Because it’s much better to introduce kids to incest than a gay couple, amirite lmao
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We’re cheap, what can I say
We’re cheap, what can I say
An ice cream is worth a thousand words.
See, you get it
You were no doubt a very troubled little boy.
They often end up in prison or as machinists.
Not to mention, we live in the age of information. Kids have Google at their fingertips 24/7. If not on their phones then at school, their friends, their libraries etc.
Unless one is planning on living in an Amish style commune, I say good luck to any parent naive enough to think they can restrict information (good or bad) from kids these days.
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One of my earliest memories was of sitting on an uncles knee watching a TV programme. Not a true uncle but a close friend of the family, i always called him "unka Hymie". He was Jewish and gay. in the early 1970 our house was one of the few places he could feel comfortable.
I've always got it...
Ahh I see. Well family friends are family anyway. Being half Indian, any elder I encounter in the wild is “Aunty/Uncle.” Don’t know family from blood lol
Upto a point I agree, and that's what I did.
Unlike my father though, I try to encourage questioning and challenge from my kids. If they wonder about something, they'll ask.
When they first asked me about the two lesbian women I mentioned earlier, it was to ask why it was wrong, since that's what some other little kids had told them.
Kids...or mine at least...see the world around them. Hajibs, lesbians, homeless people, mentally ill, drugs, whatever...they do question it, and they have done so from a very young age.
I never quite get the 'let kids be kids' angle. By their nature, kids are endlessly curious. Letting kids be kids means you'll get a million questions about everything under the sun.
Often...and I don't mean you here, I'm just speaking generally...when people say 'let kids be kids' they're talking about sheltering them from the world they live in, and quelling their natural curiosity with half answers, or even untruths.
I've seen it a lot. Death is a classic topic where this happens but adults commonly seem to want to 'protect' kids from being kids in my experience.
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And I'm from San Francisco. I grew up surrounded by gays and lesbians in my life. No one had to tell me that some men like men and some women like women. I actually thought that was as "normal" as heterosexuality and didn't know that society treats the two differently until I got older.
My great grandmother got her sex education regarding female homosexuality in her 90s... we were driving somewhere, and she said to my mom "Well, I understand how gay men do it, but I don't get Lesbians. How in the world do they have sex?" My grandmother was pretty tough and outspoken, but I thought my mom would die of embarrassment.
My oldest son was exposed to homosexuality fairly frequently in his early years, as we had a gay roommate, and she had several gay friends who came around, too. It never occurred to him that this was unusual. When he was a little older(and long past the time we lived with her), I showed him a newspaper article in which two local women got married in the 90s, after it became legal here. "Wow, why would they do that?" I braced for a conversations.... "They're so old!" he continued.
Honestly, monotheism was a more difficult conversation... He was deeply offended by the concept, and it took a lot of talk to come around to the point that while he can believe as he wishes, other people can, too.
Soon after we married (in the 90s) we went to Paris for a holiday. 8:30 in the morning we were walking along an (unknown to me) notorious street in the 9th. In every shop doorway was a scantily clad women, man, woman with chin stubble, man in miniskirt etc. I innocently asked hubby "why do they dress like that, aren't they cold" a got a fair chunk chunk of my sex education in the following conversation.
