rwethereyet
Yeah, okay.
So I pick my 3 year old daughter up from Daycare yesterday and on the way home, she says "So&So has 2 mommy's". She wasn't questioning it, she just made the comment.
I wasn't sure what to say to her. I found myself thinking too much into it. First thought was the parents were lesbians. So I told her, some kid's have 2 mommy's, some kids have 2 daddy's and other kids are like her and have a mommy and a daddy. Then I thought, well maybe the mother and father aren't together and the father is remarried and the child has a Mother and a Step-Mother. She's only three, so I didn't want to confuse her with all the possiblities and didn't say anything else about it.
She said something about it again last night. So I know she is "thinking" about it. But without knowing the child's situation, I wasn't sure how to explain it to her.
I am sitting here this morning thinking about it and the fact that when she first said it, I "assumed" the parents were lesbians. And my response was that there are some kids that have 2 mommy's and I was pretty much trying to make it sound like it was okay and that it didn't make So&So different. But my in-laws are "old schooled" and I could see if she had of made the comment to them. What would they have told her? I would hope they would be decent about it and not make it sound bad so that she would go to daycare thinking this little kid is different. But I'm not sure.
I honestly don't agree with the whole lesbian, gay thing, but I know it's a way of life and we see it more and more. I don't want her to think differently of kids because of it.
Let's say the parents were lesbians, I'm sure some of you have experienced this. What do you tell your child? Was it okay for me to say, some people have 2 mommy's, some people have 2 daddy's and some people have a mommy and a daddy? Or should I have said something else?
I wasn't sure what to say to her. I found myself thinking too much into it. First thought was the parents were lesbians. So I told her, some kid's have 2 mommy's, some kids have 2 daddy's and other kids are like her and have a mommy and a daddy. Then I thought, well maybe the mother and father aren't together and the father is remarried and the child has a Mother and a Step-Mother. She's only three, so I didn't want to confuse her with all the possiblities and didn't say anything else about it.
She said something about it again last night. So I know she is "thinking" about it. But without knowing the child's situation, I wasn't sure how to explain it to her.
I am sitting here this morning thinking about it and the fact that when she first said it, I "assumed" the parents were lesbians. And my response was that there are some kids that have 2 mommy's and I was pretty much trying to make it sound like it was okay and that it didn't make So&So different. But my in-laws are "old schooled" and I could see if she had of made the comment to them. What would they have told her? I would hope they would be decent about it and not make it sound bad so that she would go to daycare thinking this little kid is different. But I'm not sure.
I honestly don't agree with the whole lesbian, gay thing, but I know it's a way of life and we see it more and more. I don't want her to think differently of kids because of it.
Let's say the parents were lesbians, I'm sure some of you have experienced this. What do you tell your child? Was it okay for me to say, some people have 2 mommy's, some people have 2 daddy's and some people have a mommy and a daddy? Or should I have said something else?
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