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[quote=Anonymous]As was suggested here, providing insufficient answers will not stop the learning process until an age when the parent is more comfortable describing it...it will end up opening the door to other kinds of education that may or may not lead to your child getting accurate, unbiased info.   Don't you want to take this opportunity to be the person who educates your child?   
I think many of us wondered, guessed (wrongly, maybe) and then formulated views that were skewed by the media, by friends, by older siblings, by books, etc.   Then, some of us carried those sometimes incorrect views into young adulthood (or longer).  These bits of "knowledge" may have been attached to stigmas, biases, value judgments, and worse.  So, upon learning that friends, family members, clergy, politicians, neighbors, sports heroes or other people we liked and admired were gay, then tried to unlearn some of the biased language, perhaps embarrassment or even disgust, to where we could get to a place in our heads that we once started from-- say, when we were nine.  
How about saving your child years of misinformation and stereotyping and discrimination and just tell them the truth, the WHOLE truth! without embarrassment or judgment or censoring.   Then, they will shrug, walk away, and it won't be a big deal.  They might even tell their friends.   Cool.[/quote]

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