Been a nice night celebrating Emma's 26th birthday at Dad's eating fajitas and spending time with family! 🥳🌯🎂 and Stace has informed me that Mum had another fall (in the kitchen this time) and has badly bruised herself. Funnily enough, I spoke to Mum on the phone earlier and nothing was mentioned! 🙄
Gender identity/LGBTQ has very much been in vogue in recent years. My daughter came home from school one day saying she was a non-binary, bisexual, demi-girl, and her preferred pronouns were she/they. She was only 9 when this started, and highly impressionable. Try telling a child who does not even understand what sex is, that they cannot possibly know that they are bisexual - and yet she adamantly wore that label proudly, along with constantly posting the LGBTQ flag symbols everywhere. As a parent it's difficult to find the balance between letting your child know you accept them as whoever they are, and at the same time, not encouraging them to play into these gender politics that can permanently damage them. When I delved deeper, my daughter explained that every girl in her class was either lesbian or bisexual and that most of them were non-binary or trans too. It seemed likely that this was just a "trendy" thing and she was trying to fit in, but it caused a lot of difficult conversations and much anxiety for me behind closed doors. She seems to have "grown out" of it for the time being. Six months ago she came home identifying as a 'therian' and I went down that rabbit hole with her; again, it transpired it was stuff she was emulating from social media - she was following lots of channels of other kids being 'therians' and one of the girls in her class identified as 'therian'. She has already grown out of that one. I guess what I'm trying to say here, is that kids are very malleable, and they latch onto whatever is trending at the time. They also emulate the behaviour of their peer group to "fit in" so when something like this becomes fashionable, it stands to reason they would all align themselves with it. My daughter has an expensive skincare routine at 11yrs old! Every weekend when she comes to stop over at my house she brings all her Cerave, Byoma, Mario Badescu, Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, The Ordinary etc. from her Mums! It's insane. And the Stanley Cup thing? If so, my daughter has one too - her Mum got it her a few weeks ago.
