I think my response is going to be to talk with each of my grand daughters at length whenever I get the chance to.
I had to watch them the other day and my youngest had gotten into a fracas with the middle one (older still sleeping) Ages 7-9 and 11. She ultimately knew she was wrong and went and hid in her closet, ashamed. I had the middle one tell her to come down, I wanted to talk with her and she finally did.
We talked for over an hour. I never said anything about her altercation with her sister. I asked her about school and grades and accomplishments, boys, how many, what to do when you don’t like them, what she thinks.... ideas about marriage, how hard is school, etc. Really it was just of whole collection of my asking stuff and listening to her. She forgot all about what put her in the closet. But I came away with the sense that she if far beyond where I was at that age.
I want to do that with all of them - I told their mother, too. But I am going to gently focus some of the questions about what specifics they are being taught now about relationships and stuff. We’ll see.
I wish you success with that...God bless.
I have a conservative Christian friend with three daughters. My friend’s sister decided she was a lesbian and “married” a woman. The sister is a bully who threatens the family she’ll never see them again unless they accept her lifestyle and her “wife.”
Me, I’d say well, you’d best get walking then. But my friend gave in, and as a result her three school-aged daughters now believe queer marriage is perfectly fine.
It really grieves me that she has allowed her lesbian sister to dictate like that, at the expense of her daughters.