At School, When Do You Think Is the Appropriate Age to Discuss Same Sex Relationships With Children
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Anonymous
| Trying to gauge what the norm is if/when this is taught in a school setting. And if you are teaching it at home, then what’s the appropriate age? |
Anonymous
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DS has known about same sex relationships for as long as he's known about what relationships and families are. I don't remember what age that was but 3ish maybe? I know in his preschool some of their books about families had same sex families, single parent families, etc and I had no issues with that. |
Anonymous
| OP what do you mean "same sex relationships"? My kid started learning about these in preschool when they discussed what families are. Is that what you mean? |
Anonymous
| I don't think it is explicitly taught in school. We have talked about it since toddlerhood. They have friends with 2 moms or 2 dads. We've read books about all types of families since they were born. This should just be part of life |
Anonymous
| There are same sex families in the school, my kids have always known that so and so has 2 dads or 2 moms. |
Anonymous
| There were a lot of same-sex parents at school and church, including one of my kid’s best friend’s moms, so I don’t think we ever “taught” it, per se. It was just normal. No big deal. |
Anonymous
| I wasn't avoiding the topic but discussed it explicitly in 3's pre-k when another student had two moms. nbd. |
Anonymous
| When did you teach them about opposite sex relationships? Then. |
Anonymous
| Like age 2? No reason for it to be some big taboo subject. Our dentist is gay. We have relatives who are gay. It's a very simple concept - you love whoever you love. |
Anonymous
Exactly this. 3s preschool at our Catholic preschool-8th grade school. Everyone talks about their families and read books about families of all kinds. It’s not a big deal if even our second-rate Catholic school can handle this conversation. |
Anonymous
Any it’s called being a great parent |
Anonymous
+1 “You can marry whoever you love. Some girls marry boys, and some girls marry girls.” |
Anonymous
This, "are we having a playdate with 1 daddy henry or 2 daddy henry" because we knew 2 different henrys. |
Anonymous
| Another family at our daycare was a same sex parent family. My DD was probably 2-3 when she came home telling me her friend had two Moms and no Dad. We said yep, some families have two Moms, two Dads, one Mom/one Dad and some families only have one parent - no big deal. By PK they were talking about different families in school. |
Anonymous
| Since birth? They've always been around gay couples who are family members and friends. |