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Transchild
Remember that little boy a few weeks back who raised a ruckus because his parents claimed he was trans gendered? NPR has th edetails. For me, the money quote is: "Suppose you were a clinician and a 4-year-old black kid came into your office and said he wanted to be white. Would you go with that? ... I don't think we would..."
"She's so comfortable with her own being when she's simply left to be who she is without any of these restrictions being put on her."
Yes, when you let your stupid spoiled brat run around doing whatever he likes, he's generally pretty content.
This is a Future Fat Kid Of America, right here.
Posted by: asdfasdfasdf on May 11, 2008 01:48 PMWell at least this way Mom won't have to compete with any other women in his life!
Posted by: Mark on May 11, 2008 02:35 PMI am stunned at your comments.
Posted by: Pat J. on May 11, 2008 03:59 PMCorrect me if I'm wrong, but one of the points of parenting is to establish appropriate boundaries and guidelines for a child's behavior. This helps mold them into a productive member of our society. By not establishing said guidelines, we end up with someone who's not. This can end up going well, but my guess is that more than likely, it ends up going poorly.
This is no different than a kid who wants to wear his cape to school and pretend he's Stupendous Man. If the parent caves every time the kid won't take it off, then he'll develop a persona to match. My guess is that the kid dressed as the girl once for whatever party (as stated in the article) and got lots of positive attention. He then wanted to keep getting that attention, so he kept repeating the behavior.
Posted by: ron on May 12, 2008 08:30 AM