A Mom that "GETS IT"

[TalkingDog]

http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/parenting/the-controversial-costume-that-outraged-moms-made-boy-happy-blog-46-shine.html


A good parent tells their child he can be anything he wants. Especially on Halloween. And that's just what one mommy blogger did. When her 5 year-old son got a hankering to be Daphne from the Scooby Doo gang, she bought him the red wig and the costume of his dreams. But she didn't bargain for the ridicule from moms at her son's nursery school Halloween party.



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Good on her. For jeebus sakes, the kid is 5. Let him be whatever. Love him unconditionally.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Where's the "Soccer Dad?"

:cry:

[WillParkinson]

2. My mom has pictures of me...

In a long black t-shirt done up like a dress. I looked cheap, but cute. :P

[TalkingDog]

5. And if you aren't dating at this point, expect her to drag them out in the future.

It's a rite of passage.

[Dyler Turden]

3. Cute kid!

And good on his mom. It's Halloween, and by god, let him have fun.

and bad on those that gave him crap about his selection of costume.

[TalkingDog]

6. +1 n/t

[ejpoeta]

4. i agree. too bad people are idiots. we had boys at school dress up in girls uniforms

it doesn't make you gay. people are afraid of different. they need to ridicule to try to force you back in line. glad for those that don't let people bully them.

[murielm99]

7. Good heavens.

If he loves the show and is five, he is an innocent. This is about pretend, not about sexuality. Gimme a break.

When my kids were little, they got into my makeup a couple of times. My son as well as my daughter slapped on a lot of lipstick, blush and eye shadow. Then they laughed at themselves in the mirror. It did not make my son gay. It made him, and his sister, end up with very clean faces after I caught them in my stuff. After awhile, they found new ways to be naughty. They always do.

[YOY]

8. That costume is a real gas!

n/t

[gratuitous]

9. The other moms upset because he looked better than their little darlings?

Ah well, two mothers out of the whole bunch griped. Assume the silence of the others to be agreement and consent.

[elehhhhna]

12. i'm curious how many of the girls wore hypersexualized outfits?

just saying.

[patricia92243]

10. If it had been a girl dressing like a boy nobody would have said one word. n/t

[elehhhhna]

11. our little bruiser of a 4 year old neighbor has 2 older sisters

and loves to put on their plastic princess bling, maybe a pair of pink shoes, a feathered shiny purse...and he's all boy. TG his parents aren't nuts -- it's no big deal. My 17 y/o daughter pretended she was a boy for a year or so @ 3-ish. Not abnormal in an imaginative child.