Redirect those feminine behaviors, to limit play things to those in line with their gender.
He said if your son is playing with girl toys redirect him toward boy toys. He said some things that are hurtful, that could be really hurtful to kids like C.J. Have you ever met him?ĭuron: I've never met him, no.
It would be much easier not to deal with that but it's too important for kids and families like ours. I get some hate mail and I don't like getting hate mail, so there are people who definitely disagree. But because of the emails and the support that I've received, I know it's so important that someone needs to speak out for families like ours. I never, ever intended to show my face, let people know my name. I thought I would start this blog and I would meet other families like ours. could identify as straight.ĪP: What are some of the fears as a ''spokesparent,'' with the blog and now the book?ĭuron: I never anticipated that. I've made amazing friends who are raising kind of this next generation of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) youth and we do consider ourselves to be in that community. This is also something you don't necessarily see when you're out and about because some kids are in hiding, and sometimes their parents don't allow them to be gender creative out in public or even in the house. That's part of the reason why I started the blog, because we were feeling so alone and we were feeling like we were the only family going through this and we knew that that couldn't be the case.
He's already picked out his rainbow-colored, leopard-print backpack and his pink lunch box.ĪP: You've tapped into a burgeoning parenting ''movement,'' of sorts, meaning those parents who are allowing their children to be gender creative.ĭuron: It has been great that we've met other families. We've always been open to that possibility, but right now he's entering first grade as a boy and he likes being a boy. More than a million readers later, the book from Broadway Books is her humorous coming out.ĭuron: He's getting ready to start first grade, so he's great. If you want more words, there's ''gender nonconforming, gender creative, gender fluid, gender independent, gender variant, has gender identity disorder, or whatever you prefer to call it.''Ī world of nagging fear and anxiety about raising a boy who wants to be treated like a girl prompted Duron to begin an anonymous blog,, documenting their family's adventures. as - in a word - fabulous as he lives life largely in pink, playing with girl toys, dressing in girl clothes and worshipping the Disney princesses.
In a new book ''Raising My Rainbow,'' the Orange County, Calif., mom describes C.J. The 6½-year-old discovered the doll at the back of his mother's closet about four years ago, and she's barely left his clutches since. NEW YORK - For Lori Duron, parenting her younger son C.J.
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