Posted: May 26, 2011 6:46 am
I'm also more concerned about the kid's name. FFS who names their bloody kid "Storm." By default it is thought to be a girl's name and then if the kid is a boy, he will be teased by his classmates the minute he arrives at school.
By the time the kid is two years old it will identify with the parent of the same sex anyway. He definitely looks like a boy to me, but these days, who the hell cares? A kid is a kid.
My kids are raising their children, well, will be, to be ambisexual, (if that's a word) as I did. I didn't deliberately dress them in blue, I merely bought blue when they were babies because of their blue eyes. When they were older, I let them choose the colour of their clothes and mostly they went with the colours they still prefer today. By the time they were in the middle of their second year, they chose "boy" toys for themselves although they did play with "he-men" and when She-ra arrived, they got all "nooooooo" when I dressed her up in a pretty pink frock and told them they were playing with dolls. The dress got ceremoniously ripped off to show off her super-hero suit underneath. (I stole it later and kept the pink dress to torment them when they got older. Then one of them took her from me and again, the pink dress was ripped off).
I taught mine to cook, clean and tidy up as well as fix, mend and garden. That's all you need to do to make them grow up to be self-sufficient. My younger d-i-l was raised the same way, she loves rugby and motorcycles and hates wearing dresses, never played with dolls but if her baby is a girl, she'll be allowed to have dolls if she chooses them.
By the time the kid is two years old it will identify with the parent of the same sex anyway. He definitely looks like a boy to me, but these days, who the hell cares? A kid is a kid.
My kids are raising their children, well, will be, to be ambisexual, (if that's a word) as I did. I didn't deliberately dress them in blue, I merely bought blue when they were babies because of their blue eyes. When they were older, I let them choose the colour of their clothes and mostly they went with the colours they still prefer today. By the time they were in the middle of their second year, they chose "boy" toys for themselves although they did play with "he-men" and when She-ra arrived, they got all "nooooooo" when I dressed her up in a pretty pink frock and told them they were playing with dolls. The dress got ceremoniously ripped off to show off her super-hero suit underneath. (I stole it later and kept the pink dress to torment them when they got older. Then one of them took her from me and again, the pink dress was ripped off).
I taught mine to cook, clean and tidy up as well as fix, mend and garden. That's all you need to do to make them grow up to be self-sufficient. My younger d-i-l was raised the same way, she loves rugby and motorcycles and hates wearing dresses, never played with dolls but if her baby is a girl, she'll be allowed to have dolls if she chooses them.