If you are serious about your blog stalking reading when it comes to checking in on pBd, perhaps you saw this post I wrote last Monday about raising genderless children?
It’s cool if you missed, I’ll wait while you go read it now…
Back? Sweet.
So, it was inspired largely by media events, but also by this episode of The Conversation Thread that I filmed a bit ago with Kelly Wallace and some of my other iVoice pals (Brandi Jeter, Sharon Rowley, and Beth Engleman)…
Basically, in case you missed the post and you didn’t have time to pay super close attention to the video (you’re gonna have to watch the video before tomorrow though, just so you know!), I said a bunch of stuff about my thoughts on raising genderless children, and I said a bunch of other stuff about what I would do if one of The Dudes wanted to be, um, less dude.
But honestly. I mean what would I do?
I can’t seriously sit here and pretend to even know the answer to that question.
We have a few mommy-can-you-put-the-tutu-on-and-paint-my-nails-pretty-so-I-can-be-sparkly moments in our history.
But plenty of people have those, right?
Right?
And there is nothing to worry about with that because I’m pretty sure he was just exploring pretty things, you know? And like being a kid. Not a boy kid or a girl kid, just a kid kid.
Right?
I’m a firm believer in not freaking out about things until they need to be freaked out about. And then, I freak out internally, so they can’t sense my freak out at all. And then I face the problem by crying to my mommy head on, and chose to support them no matter what.
I will always support them. No matter what.
And, while that may be the only thing I know for sure when thinking about this kind of stuff, I do know that I’m excited to announce that we’re hosting another #ConvoThread Twitter chat!
So you guys can set me straight on all of this stuff. Or agree with me wholeheartedly so I feel awesome and intelligent. Or something in between.
Join us tomorrow (2/2), on Twitter (duh!), at 9pm Eastern to talk about transgender children, and other tough issues we as parents face, daily hourly, from the moment they come screaming in to our homes, until the moment we finally scream them out of it.
And, just to make sure we have a little fun with this thing, we are going to be hooking up participants with some sweetness from Amazon.
In the form of $50 gift cards of course!
So, be sure you RSVP below (it’s the only way to win!), and watch the video already, and then hop on over to Twitter and follow us: @dumbparent @mamaknowsitall @momonashoe & @sharonmomof6.
See you tomorrow, for interesting discourse, free gifts, and awesomeness!
RSVP here…
This is an important topic. Thanks for talking about it!
Thank you for spotlighting such an important topic.
Looking forward to this. My brain is still reeling with “What are they thinking?”thoughts.
Hope to be there tonight! As a transgendered parent, I think I can bring a slightly different perspective (ummmm, yeah. Slightly). :)
Might be a bit late as I need to get my daughter from piano, and dinner for everyone. You know how it is.
I’ll be there. And yeah, I think it’s normal for the opposite sex to explore “supposed” boy/girl things. They’re kids. My boy likes to wear my heels and carry his sisters’ purses. He wants gloss (but he can’t have mine b/c hello, he is 2 and nasty and likes to lick it and he also licks his fingers after they’ve been all between his toes, so, um, no). And I have to say this before I forget to mention it tonight: They’re gonna be who they’re gonna be. I don’t think “encouraging” playing with dolls or trucks will make a little boy or girl any more boyish or girlier than he/she already may feel. And more importantly, why do we (or is it the media?) always seem to focus on the boys being too girly rather than girls being too tomboyish?
Hope to drop in – important topic!