Reply to Capital Pride Celebration with kids

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Capital Pride Celebration with kids"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We ended up inadvertently taking our 3 year old last year.  By inadvertently, I mean we had dinner not far from the parade route and then walked along 14th street as the last few floats went by.  He loved it.   At 3, the mature content was not something he noticed.  Overall, given the later hour 14th was not as crowded, and yet there were still lots of music, balloons, beads, etc to make it fun.  3 year old  has talked about going again for the entire year.   [/quote]
OP has a 5 yo, at that age the kid will surely notice the mature content. At 5 kids are in the development stage in which they pay close attention to genitalia (see Freud’s stages of development). [/quote]

There won't be genitalia exposed at the parade, right?[/quote]

apparently youve never been to a gay pride parade[/quote]

I've been to many gay pride parades and NEVER seen genitalia exposed.  I'm not saying it couldn't ever have happened, but it's certainly not common.  I am the previous poster who recommended heading to the Rainbow Families family area. It's basically on a full block next to the parade route.  That way if you want to draw your kids' attention away from any inappropriate content in the parade you can just say: Hey, look at this sack race getting started or something.  I've brought my kid to pride.  He loved all the positive attention he got and the beads and candy.  He never saw anything I even had to explain later.  One year he got an inflatable Pink Flamingo.  He loved it.  Those of you who make Pride out to be some horrific scene of hedonistic misdeeds probably haven't ever been to pride.  Some bar floats do come by, but they are all in one section of the parade, which a family could easily grab an ice cream during and miss.  More corporate groups and school groups than half-dressed people.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics