I know it was meant as sweet, but it really, really creeped me out.
How about instead we love our kids regardless of what their genitalia is, & support their passions while also exposing them to new things? Maybe even teach them empathy & respect while we’re at it?
❤️,
A parent of 4 grown people
And it perpetuates the idea that boys aren’t nurturing. It’s learned like everything else! So if you teach girls to be nurturing they probably will be and the same goes for boys. If you teach boys to not have feelings then that’s what they’ll learn. I hate this post.
There is some truth, I suspect, to what you say, however do not discount what a child learns from peers, family, neighbors, etc. Everyone is an influence, for better or worse.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. If everyone collectively perpetuates this idea that boys can’t be emote or nurture then how will they ever learn? It has to stop.
Many fathers WANT hard sons, feeling it will allow sons to protect family. I accept as fact that most boys revere those stereotypes for themselves, some learn the lesson, but temper it. Others become toxic. Good luck in demanding the end to a condition of culture that has existed as long as it has.
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How about instead we love our kids regardless of what their genitalia is, & support their passions while also exposing them to new things? Maybe even teach them empathy & respect while we’re at it?
❤️,
A parent of 4 grown people