What's so bad about a boy who wears a dress to school? (private school, laws)
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It's unbelievable that we're even considering this as an option for children.
Why can't parents raise their children as they are supposed to be raised. Why are children given so much freedom to dictate to their parents how they will dress?
If my son wanted to dress up like superman and go to school there's no way that would happen, but a dress? Give me a break.
At 4 years old, there's no way I'd allow my son to make those decisions on his own.
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When Alex was 4, he pronounced himself “a boy and a girl,” but in the two years since, he has been fairly clear that he is simply a boy who sometimes likes to dress and play in conventionally feminine ways. Some days at home he wears dresses, paints his fingernails and plays with dolls; other days, he roughhouses, rams his toys together or pretends to be Spider-Man.
There's an image of a boy in a green dress that goes with the article linked. That kid is probably older than 7 years old, I can't believe the world of hurt his parents are setting him up for. Why don't adults just put their foot down and impart discipline and be a parent.
It's unbelievable that we're even considering this as an option for children.
Why can't parents raise their children as they are supposed to be raised. Why are children given so much freedom to dictate to their parents how they will dress?
If my son wanted to dress up like superman and go to school there's no way that would happen, but a dress? Give me a break.
At 4 years old, there's no way I'd allow my son to make those decisions on his own.
There's an image of a boy in a green dress that goes with the article linked. That kid is probably older than 7 years old, I can't believe the world of hurt his parents are setting himself up for. Why can't parents just put their foot down and impart discipline and be a parent.
This has to do with culture and the values of that culture. Being from LA I should think you'd know more about competing cultures and their disparate values than I do. We are growing ever more distant from each other.
He needs to learn early that there is a time and place for everything and that his actions will have consequences that all the rules and laws in the world won't protect him from.
School, like work, often come with limits on personal expression. FACT.
When this team relay works, we move the conversation forward.
"Really, Mommy? There was a time when girls couldn't go to school? Children of different races didn't play together? Some people who loved each other couldn't get married? Girls had to wear dresses? Boys could not?"
"How did those things change, Mommy?"
It is our job to grab the baton from them, run with it, then hand it back.
Do you speak differently with your children about gender than your parents spoke to you? What do you say?
What does any of this have to do with a boy wearing a dress to school?
He's got gender issues. This shouldn't have to be experienced by everyone in that school to accommodate that boy's gender confusion.
He has got to learn that you can't throw on a dress and go out in public and be acceptable. That's not how society works.
There was a time when women and girls were forbidden from wearing anything but a dress to work or school. Should we go back to those days too?
Women and girls should wear dresses.
I can't believe that NBC is televising women's beach volleyball in primetime - its practically like showing the Playboy channel to 7 year olds.
At least the male volleyball players have the decency to actually wear clothes.
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