Daycare celebrating PRIDE. Appropriate?
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Anonymous
Yep. All the kids in my son's daycare classroom know he has two moms. |
Anonymous
Even a 4yo who has same sex parents don't grasp "the concept". It's not until you understand that people hate on same sex marriages is there really anything to grasp. |
Anonymous
| Is it appropriate to wear rainbows to Preschool? That is really the question. The question is when is it not okay to wear rainbows in preschool. Come on people. |
Anonymous
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Inappropriate.
and yes I like gay people blahblah. Sexuality is not a topic for daycare. |
Anonymous
| I think it's fine. There is nothing wrong with being gay or being straight. We can celebrate both. |
Anonymous
Lol- they're not discussing sex positions! Most daycares in this area will have kids with gay parents. This is nice, in my opinion, that they're celebrating Pride. |
Anonymous
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To my 5yo, the rainbow flags mean "you can love who you want to love".
I also think the day care is probably not doing this for the kids, but to show support to employees and parents. |
Anonymous
+1. I'm wearing a Unity Orlando Pride t-shirt right now. I'm very supportive of gay marriage. I'm a minister who happily performs ceremonies. But its not a preschool topic. All they need to learn is to be kind. We want to raise our littlest people to see gay rights as a given. Not as something different. |
Anonymous
You can see something as a given and also celebrate the heros who fought to bring it to you. My kid takes it for granted that he can have friends and classmates of all races and cultures. He also knows about heroes like MLK and Rosa Parks who came before. |
Anonymous
They are 4 .. They are hard pressed to learn 1 letter a day. It's not a "topic" ... You think they are going to hold a lecture? The kids are wearing rainbow colors, that is it. |
Anonymous
I am imagining the conversations in the households that decide not to support it. "I'm sorry, Johnny, you can't wear that shirt. Red is your favorite color, and we want to make a statement. No, not that one either the roof on that truck is red too. Oh no blue, that's my favorite color . . . . We don't want people to think you like Jeremy's two mommies. Oh, here's the puce ruffled shirt grandma sent. No one likes this color, wear this." |
Anonymous
And what exactly will they tell the kids they are celebrating? So ridiculous. |
Anonymous
| Isn't it something how being gay went from something that was considered by most to be wrong and a choice to something that is now part of mainstream culture in such a short period of time? It's amazing how quickly culture can change. |
Anonymous
Families? Love? The fact that you can marry whoever you want? Being true to yourself? Kids celebrate all sorts of things they don't understand. It's how families and cultures transmit values. My kid celebrated his first Christmas at 9 months old. The only thing he understood was that the paper was pretty but mommy wouldn't let you eat it. He sang "Happy Birthday" to his Grandpa with glee, long before he had understanding that people were born. And he can wear a rainbow, and know that the day is important, even if he only has a vague understanding that it has to do with Uncle Billy and Uncle Jack, or marriage, or whatever. But later, when he's 15 and trying to figure out whether his mom is someone he can talk to about his own questions about his own sexuality, he'll have the security of knowing that his parents are deeply committed to gay rights, in small part because they still have that picture of him in his rainbow Tshirt in preschool in the photo album. |
Anonymous
+ 1. Complex adult subject matter. But yay for rainbows. |