I have a grandson who is about to turn seven. I haven’t seen him since he was about three months old.
My son and his wife are liberals and are upset that I might try to sway my gasndson away from making his own decision in the event that he’d want to identify as a female.
It almost seems like a joke.... but it sure isn’t funny when it is happening to you.
The condition for seeing my grandson is that I publicy accept LBTBTQ+ and apologize for being opposed to it.
They sure didn’t think that one out. My wife and I have an email address we have created for our grandson and write him with some regularity.
Once he is an adult we will locate him and give him that email address and the PW. We are sure to never bad mouth his parents. He will figure out at some point that his parents are using him as their own tool to make us suffer.
Kids are smarter than we know about things like that.
One thing I figured out is that parents cannot stop their kids from seeing people short of a restraining order. If the grandparents want to *see* the child, they can. Too often this becomes a game that people feel like they have to win. Eventually, the child figures out what is going on when they see the grandparents in public but can’t talk to them.
My mother refused to come to our house to see the children even though she was invited. That’s what she defined as “not seeing them”. She was a smoker and our daughter had asthma. When we moved away, we would stay with her which was fine with her (she had stopped smoking).