Timeline for How should I handle a little boy who likes girls' toys?
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| Mar 26, 2021 at 9:46 | comment | added | user1751825 | @superAnnoyingUser I answered the question based on the information provided. If the information is incorrect, then the answer doesn't apply. The question might be entirely fictitious, how would I know. I just called it as I saw it. | |
| Mar 26, 2021 at 8:10 | comment | added | superAnnoyingUser | You are a little quick to judge, to say the least. What an awful, divisive suggestion to deprive a boy from his father, and the basis of what? A couple of paragraphs. You don't know what is going on. An you are offering the most severe action. Disgusting. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 13:22 | comment | added | user1751825 | @ChrisSunami. It doesn't sound like this paternal relationship is in any way 'intact'. The OP has also stated that the father intends to disown the child if he turns out to be gay. He said this about an innocent little 5 year old boy... His own flesh and blood. He apparently has no particular qualms about dividing himself from the child. I know we don't have much to go on here, but I find it very difficult to believe this man could have any redeeming fatherly qualities. | |
| Apr 15, 2015 at 13:46 | comment | added | DevSolar | @ChrisSunami: Well, a few paragraphs typed on a keyboard is all we get here for judging a situation, is it? The quoted statements of the father make my skin crawl, and boy would I handle him as an acute problem. That's my judgement given the available input. No-one is forcing the OP to agree. | |
| Apr 15, 2015 at 13:28 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | @DevSolar It's easy to be judgmental from behind a keyboard. I'm not advocating the child be continuously exposed to a hostile environment, and I'm sure the OP has enough knowledge of her ex to know what kind of person he actually is. But one ignorant statement is not enough for me to advocate dividing a father from a child in a world where intact paternal relationships are increasingly rare. | |
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| Apr 15, 2015 at 5:47 | comment | added | Robotnik | @ChrisSunami - The father has shown unreasonable bias and hostility in a world where that kind of thinking is dying out. Whilst there isn't any doubt that he loves his son, his fears of "raising a faggot" (his words) will force him to try and imprint this sort of unjustified fearful thinking onto his son, and he will limit his son's exposure to outside ideas and will ultimately stunt his normal, healthy mental growth. There's nothing wrong with taking your son fishing and camping, there IS something wrong with judging every action he takes as if it had an effect on his sexual orientation. | |
| Apr 14, 2015 at 8:07 | comment | added | DevSolar | @ChrisSunami: Well, actually a person talking about the son being a "faggot" in one sentence and offering to "teach him how to be a man" in the next, while not necessarily a lost cause, is a danger to the son's emotional well-being and should have only restricted contact to him... | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | -1 Every parent makes mistakes, and someone who hasn't had much parenting experiences makes more. It sounds like the father is making an effort, even if he is misguided. Treating the father as an enemy or a lost cause isn't necessarily going to be the best thing for his son either. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 2:58 | vote | accept | Mariana G. | ||
| Apr 13, 2015 at 1:38 | history | answered | user1751825 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |