A few questions

Based on things I’ve overhead or read recently:

Why do we assume that all boys like bugs? Or that only boys like bugs?
Why do we all know what someone means if they say they want something in “a boy color?”
Why do kids as young as four “know” that fairies are for girls (only)?
Why do we discourage [...]

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Sometimes it’s best to let others speak…

I could not have captured these sentiments better myself.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2193119.htm
Eloquent. Insightful.

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A clarification

Just a note to follow up on my last post (and yes, we’ve been away again, hence the dry spell in posting). I appreciate everyone’s thoughtful comments — I think that you see the tension that I feel sometimes between the need or want to educate, open minds, etc, and the desire sometimes to just [...]

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