Daycare celebrating PRIDE. Appropriate?

[Anonymous]

Put your kid in a colorful outfit. End of story. Done.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be bothered by this, but I would want it to be more than just "wear a rainbow" day.

By this I mean, does the school not just "accept" but embrace same sex families? What about gender nonconforming kids? What do kids with two moms do for Father's Day and vice-versa? Are a variety of families reflected in the materials and books that the teachers use in general life, not just as a Very Special Lesson?

[Anonymous]

I would just keep my kids home. I'm not into making being gay a huge big thing.

Give them story books with gay parents or just talk about it the same way you would any other family or situation. Normalize it as part of daily life.

But making it seem like being gay is something so amazing and different and special that you need outlandish costumes and to act in sexually lewd ways to express it and that it needs a party and a parade and you have to make a super big deal out of being gay - not my thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is most offensive in this situation is that they're pushing their agenda on you and your kid. Schools- of every level- need to stop doing this. I am in 100% support of gay rights, but don't expect me or my kid to dress up in rainbows just to make your school look good.

+1,000,000

I'm same as you - LGBT is fine by me, but all this liberal political hogwash in schools needs to stop.

The suicide rate of LGBT teens is 4 times greater than non-LGBT teens. So yes, LGBT teens need to know that people support them.

So preschoolers wearing rainbows will help gay teens? What about all the other people who commit suicide?

I don't actually think the 4 year old has a clue, but a teacher may be 20 something and struggling with LGBT issues or a teen may have a 4 year old sibling in the preschool and I do believe having the parents dress their kids in rainbows will help these people know they are loved. The suicide rate is highest for 12-25.

I think we need better mental health care for "others", also schools have made huge strides with bullying to help prevent "other people" from committing suicide. Also, kids with learning disabilities are getting better support (another cohort that commits suicide at a higher rate). I don't think there is a one prong approach, I think there needs to be many things done to help those struggling with thought that they are not loved or valued.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would just keep my kids home. I'm not into making being gay a huge big thing.

Give them story books with gay parents or just talk about it the same way you would any other family or situation. Normalize it as part of daily life.

But making it seem like being gay is something so amazing and different and special that you need outlandish costumes and to act in sexually lewd ways to express it and that it needs a party and a parade and you have to make a super big deal out of being gay - not my thing.

Pride isn't about celebrating being gay. It's about celebrating the fact that we've come this far. That people can live their lives without fear or oppression

Kinda like how MLK day isn't about celebrating being black, it's about celebrating similar freedoms.

[Anonymous]

I think this is wonderful - wish my daycare did it. But, he goes to a Catholic daycare, so............

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would just keep my kids home. I'm not into making being gay a huge big thing.

Give them story books with gay parents or just talk about it the same way you would any other family or situation. Normalize it as part of daily life.

But making it seem like being gay is something so amazing and different and special that you need outlandish costumes and to act in sexually lewd ways to express it and that it needs a party and a parade and you have to make a super big deal out of being gay - not my thing.

....What on earth are you imagining? That the kids and teachers will dress in drag and make out with each other?

Why is it some people can never get past the sex part of being gay?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would just keep my kids home. I'm not into making being gay a huge big thing.

Give them story books with gay parents or just talk about it the same way you would any other family or situation. Normalize it as part of daily life.

But making it seem like being gay is something so amazing and different and special that you need outlandish costumes and to act in sexually lewd ways to express it and that it needs a party and a parade and you have to make a super big deal out of being gay - not my thing.

....What on earth are you imagining? That the kids and teachers will dress in drag and make out with each other?

Why is it some people can never get past the sex part of being gay?

Because talking about their impeccable dress sense is boring.

[Anonymous]

please, consider for a moment, the privilege many of you have of thinking about whether to discuss pride/gay rights/same-sex couples with your children.

[Anonymous]

wouldn't be a fan. It's not age-appropriate to discuss sexuality with kids that young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wouldn't be a fan. It's not age-appropriate to discuss sexuality with kids that young.

Do you not understand the difference between sex and love?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wouldn't be a fan. It's not age-appropriate to discuss sexuality with kids that young.

Do your kids celebrate Mother's Day and Father's Day? Do they celebrated sex or family and love?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm tell them it is celebrating love. This is not a big deal.

It's a huge deal. Kids will be celebrating something they have no concept of. That's not fair.
the child has to either know exactly what pride is about, or be left out of it until he is old enough to know.

My four-year-old asked me why there were so many rainbow flags around. I told her that the flags meant, "Everyone is welcome here. No matter who they want to marry, or who they love." That made total sense to her. We didn't even have to talk about sex, because little kids don't really connect marriage and sex. I told her that sometimes boys want to marry girls, like her father and me; and sometimes boys want to marry boys, like her Uncle Chris and her Uncle Joe; and sometimes girls want to marry girls, like her friend Caleb's parents. And that people should marry who they love. This really isn't rocket science.

Exactly! Love is love is love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is wonderful - wish my daycare did it. But, he goes to a Catholic daycare, so............

I'd be far more concerned about the Catholic daycare.

[Anonymous]

Jesus. It's nice to see the heteronormative, homophobic privilege coming schlepping out of the darkness.

If my kid has to make a fathers day card for his "grandfather" and "dad" because the daycare can't remember that he has two mom's - thus raising all kinds of horse manure for him and us to have to deal with - then YES your kid has to celebrate pride and have the liberal gay "agenda" pushed on him too.