SUSPICIOUS ...
Upstairs they co-sleep curled up on two mattresses
pushed together on the floor of the master bedroom,
under a heap of mismatched pillows and blankets.
During the day, the kids build forts with the pillows
and pretend to walk a tightrope between the mattresses.
HILARIOUS ...
The fringe movement is growing. An unschooling conference
in Toronto drew dozens of families last fall.
WELL DUH ...
“We spend more time than we should providing explanations
for why we do things this way,”
CREEPY ...
parents should support gender-creative children, which
includes the transgendered, who feel born in the wrong
bodies, and gender hybrids, who feel they are part girl
and part boy. Then there are gender “smoothies,” who have
a blended sense of gender that is purely “them.”
Also in the SUSPICIOUS category:
“While she accepts and supports Jazz’s freedom “to be who he is,” she’s concerned about asking two small boys to keep a secret about the baby of the family. “For very young children, just in their brains, they’re not ready to do the kind of sophisticated discernment we do about when a secret is necessary.””
When is a secret nessecary? What secrets? Have you ever heard parents talk this way in regards to children expressing things about gender issues?
These people are sick. Sophisticated discernment is needed to lie about children’s gender?
God I hope that this article prompts someone with the authority to do so to investigatge these people.
I thought the word gender-creative was interesting. It suggests not “born that way” but “decided upon”.