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Children are amazingly resilient...

by David and Tim Bayly on May 25, 2011 - 5:56pm

Lots of you have forwarded the story about the foolish couple in Toronto trying to keep their newborn's sex a secret. Hissy-fits and kudos all around, depending on your politics.

But really how different is it from the normal Christian home where, aside from putting body parts together when it's time for marriage...

no one teaches their children anything about the meaning and purpose of their sexuality; and certainly not male initiative, fatherhood, and love or feminine deference, motherhood, and submission.

But if you want to tsk tsk and cluck cluck, here it is. (After posting this, Andrew Henry pointed out these two articles--this from Salon and this from the Star--are better than the prior link.)

Anyone worried about the child's future may be reassured to know the child's sex will be clear soon enough. Give him a doll and he'll hold it like a gun and say "Bam! Bam!" Give her a baseball glove and she'll wrap it in a blanket, cuddle it in her arms, and sing it a lullabay until its gone to sleep.

On the other hand, you could wait a few more years and watch what he or she does with the toilet seat.

Sex will out.

(TB: thanks to a bunch of you)

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Feminism
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Submitted by Eric Rasmusen on May 26, 2011 - 4:36am

I may be misremembering, but I think someone told me once his family had tried giving their toddler boy a doll. Then they found what he did with it: he tore the head off and used the doll as a toy gun.

Submitted by Jonathan Crum on May 26, 2011 - 4:52am

Isn't Storm a girl's name?

Submitted by bert perry on May 26, 2011 - 5:15am

If they're feminists and are trying to hide the sex of the child, five will get you ten it's a boy.

But Jonathan has a point, too.

Submitted by Andrew Henry on May 26, 2011 - 5:54am

Salon and The Star both have articles on this as well. The Fox article is bloated with commentary from "experts" on both sides. The Star article was the best of the three that I read.

Parents can't help but impose their views on their children. Either they impose godly views, or ungodly ones. These parents aren't "freeing" their children from gender, they're imposing "genderlessness" on them.

Submitted by Nate Crum on May 26, 2011 - 6:59am

How does anyone know what "gender" the kid is? Are we not talking about "sex"? It is insane to think that he won't grow up and have attractions to males or females. Only then will his gender be knowable (is that a word). Either his parents are going to teach him a godly view of manhood, like Andrew said, or they will train him to be ungodly. Let us pray that all of us parents will fear God and raise children to do the same.

Submitted by Jane Dunsworth on May 26, 2011 - 7:31am

Well, they're not denying that he has a sex, and they're not claiming not to be able to figure it out. They just think that if they treat him like a tabula rasa and make sure everyone else does by concealing his sex from them, that whatever he turns out to be will be "really him" and not some imposed social construct.

Which is absolutely skuablon hogwash, but it's not quite the same as claiming they don't know if he has a sex.

(And while using "him" is something of a grammatical convenience, I'm with Bert.)

Submitted by Sue McKeown on May 28, 2011 - 9:30pm

In the same vein, Eric, a friend of mine once taught 1st grade Sunday School. Her church had the pre-middle school children stay with their parents until the sermon, and then the children left for Sunday School. One Palm Sunday, her class arrived with the palm branches they received in church. The boys were less interested in her lesson than in using their palm branches to sword fight with each other.

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