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[beetiger]

I figure every parent of a kid in the "why" stage gets tough questions sometimes. The funny part is when you get questions that a more mainstream parent wouldn't think are complicated, but to you they are.

Today's entry? "Mommy, can a boy grow up to be a woman?"

(my answer, after a moment of internal boggle: "That's not the usual way it happens." Which seemed to satisfy him for the moment.)

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[koogrr.livejournal.com]

ONLY ON THE INTARNETS!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Perfect, perfect user icon.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

*SNORF*

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

And discussions like that are where my daughter came up with the term BOY LESBIANS.

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I've gotten that one while he's triumphantly marching around the house stating the various organs boys and girls come with....I probably responded to it with "Sometimes." Thankfully, I didn't get an additional "Why?" as I unconsciously would have gone into a sociological lecture on the morphology of gender roles in the 21st century :)

[onecrazymother.livejournal.com]

We had a confluence of conversations that made me realize that boys grow up to be women much more often than they grow up to be astronauts.

"You can be anything you want to be, hon."

[e-phemera.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is so perfect!

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

This comment caught my eye, so I started reading your journal and ended up friending you.

Umm, hi. :-)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you guys would like each other. :)

hi!

[onecrazymother.livejournal.com]

and lo, I have added you, which means you can read the other 99% of my journal now...for better and for worse :)

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant answer.

[tikvah.livejournal.com]

Brilliant response!

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's basically what I answered when Scout asked the reverse question (Can girls grow up to be boys?). ;)

[sandramort.livejournal.com]

Eva and a friend of mine from college (you may know her from FM, actually) had a long IM chat about it last summer. I was very proud of how mature she was about the whole conversation. Other than one quick "EW!" out loud to me when Kendra mentioned surgical removal of the penis, she was very polite and respectful. But she IS a lot older.I don't think she'd have been ready for that information at R's age.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Rhys is still trying to figure out the basic gender concepts overall.

His questions of this type are less about gender per se, and more about the edges of how the world works. Other questions in this mode have included asking whether babies can die and whether you can eat cat meat.

I'm trying to do right on the whole "answer the question they're really asking" bit.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

That's a fantastic answer, and you have a lot of patience.