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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Taro who wrote (851559)4/22/2015 1:47:16 PM
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People need to listen to their kids but at the same time I think it is important not to impose one's own political beliefs on them.

And this topic just kind of has that look and feel about it. Kids at the age of two or five can say anything. A vast proportion of it is what they heard their parents or someone else say.

I wonder whether the parents were discussing the subject of gender identity around their kids?

When we had young children we intentionally decided not to impose organized religion on them. We weren't opposed to religion, generally, but wanted to have our kids make their own choices. When my son was three, he laid in the kitchen floor saying, "God, just say something to me. One thing. Just say one thing so I know you are there." We laughed about it at the time, but it never occurred to us then that he did not get that from us. Some intuition co-mingled with hearsay, I would imagine.

But I don't think it was him calling out for a religious conversion, nor do I think our approach "caused" him to become an Atheist, which he eventually did. (I also don't know that we made the right choice to NOT expose them to religion, you do what you can).

I'm sure the experts know everything on it but it seems to me that moving ahead on something like gender identity issues at an early age, before puberty, is a big step. Were it me and my kid I think I would opt for deferring the choice and I would carefully reexamine the nuance of my conversation to make sure I wasn't influencing the decision inadvertently.
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