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Unanswerable
Thrills n' chills. Felix can say a thing or two, tell the dog to lie down, make polite but insistent requests for me to blow bubbles and I've considered not tracking down copies of The Emotional Life of the Toddler and How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (which will then languish as coasters until the next time I panic).
But then I read something that sent me into a different sort of fret, not really over anything I feel is threatening m or my family but over the unanswerable questions that show up all the time. I don't think this is something that happens only to people with children, but the unsolvable, unreasonable, unfathomable issues are easy to spot when they crop up around questions of responsibility for one's child.
The Village Voice this week has an article that poses a heartbreaking problem. What does one do with a child who prefers or claims to prefer, claims to need to live as a member of the opposite gender? What does one do when a three year old child begins asserting these wishes or needs?
I know there is no right path, no program of necessary action.
It is an interesting article, and worth reading for the questions it raises, if not the answers.
posted by Elise at 8:02 PM
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