Gender Creative/Neutral/Open Parenting is a new technique that more and more folks are using to rear their kids. You may have heard of Theybies: babies whose parents choose not to assign them a gender and request that their communities use the non-binary pronouns They/Them.
In this episode I discuss the Gender Creative Parenting method and my own positive and negative feelings about it. My good friend, Mara, is using this approach to raise her awesome kid, Aster. She joins me for the second half of the episode to discuss her experiences. Fast forward to the 37 minute mark to skip straight to my chat with her.
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08/17/20 • 85 min
Better for the Boy - Gender Creative Parenting
Transcript
Today I’m going to talk to my friend Mara who is practicing gender neutral parenting. She and her husband decided not to reveal the sex of their baby before the baby was born AND even AFTER their baby was born, they did not reveal the sex of the child to anyone. They didn’t tell any of their family members, some of them would come to find out when caring for the child because of changing diapers - but Mara and Kyle weren’t like calling their folks from the hospital with gleeful cries “
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