When my oldest was in preschool, he used to run around singing “I Love Being A Princess,” a song from the Backyardigans TV show. At school, he put on dresses and pranced about in heels. In his case, however, it was simply a matter of a catchy tune and a lack of more traditionally male dress up items in the school’s dress up corner. While he’s since moved on to other songs and other clothes, he sees nothing wrong with his younger brother repeating lines from a show about wishing to be a princess. Thankfully, that sort of acceptance is no longer limited to San Francisco.
Archive for the ‘LGBT Parenting’ Category
Student Teacher Fired For Hanging Out With Guys
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Teachers teach their students a lot more than just the three Rs of reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic. They teach kids to have confidence and to try new things. They get kids to strive for excellence and accept loss gracefully. Teachers teach kids how to interact with others, both by telling them directly and by setting an example. In short, teachers teach kids about the real world. Except, perhaps, in Beaverton, Oregon where the real world apparently must be cleaned up and sanitized before telling the precious little snowflakes about it.
The Changing Face of Childhood Riddles
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Let’s face it — children love riddles. No matter how corny or silly — in fact, perhaps, the sillier, the better — they can’t seem to get enough. And they don’t have to be new, either. Consider these classics:
A plane crashes exactly on the border of the United States and Canada. In which country would the survivors be buried?
A man sees an acquaintance standing on a corner with a dog. He asks the friend if his dog bites; the friend says no but when the man tries to pet the dog, he gets bitten. Still, the acquaintance told the truth — how is that possible?
A boy and his father were involved in a terrible automobile accident. The father was killed instantly and the boy was rushed to the hospital and brought into the operating room where the head surgeon was waiting. The doctor took one look at the child and declared “I cannot operate on this boy for he is my son!” How can that be?
High School Won’t Let Teen Be King
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
While high school is not supposed to be a popularity contest, it’s got to make a parent proud to have their child chosen, by the other students, to be homecoming king. Similarly, it would be absolutely devastating and infuriating to have the school step in and take that title away. That’s what happened to Oakleigh Reed, a senior at Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, Michigan. The teen is happy about the support from the other students, but notes that “sometimes it’s nice to have something tangible.”
Mind you, Reed is no troublemaker that drew votes via threats of violence. Nor was he disqualified for having flunked out of school or being on suspension — the child is an honor student, even. And there was no evidence of misconduct in regards to the vote — “I knew I had a lot of votes,” Reed said, “because people were telling me in the hallway, ‘Hey, I voted for you, I voted for you.'” So why did the school take away Reed’s crown and title?
LGBT Parents Have Slideshows Too
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I was planning on writing an article on how I don’t actually like Blogging for LGBT Families Day because I don’t think LGBT families are really any different than any other families in the grand scheme of things (but I understand that we still need to keep explaining that to people and therefore fully support it) and maybe one about how I believe LGBT Parents are, on average, better than straight parents because, generally speaking, LGBT parents don’t have “oops” babies and thus don’t have their average dragged down by the likes of Britney Spears or Bristol Palin, but instead, I’m desperately loading nearly 4,000 photos onto my wife’s Macintosh so I can use iMovie to create a slideshow for my daughter’s kindergarten class.
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