Kids Forced To Grow Up Too Quickly?

[HeaMsoRb]

Why do adults force kids to grow up too quickly by stripping them of "childish" stuff like toys and kids shows when they deem the kids to be too old for them?

[Peter Pedant]

// What's homosexuality and trans got to do with playing with toys? //
with apols to Naomi for talking within the thread:

I dont want to pay a lot of money to find out I fell in love with my rocking horse - Noel Coward - that's what !

(only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse ...Blithe spirit apparently)

[barry1010]

Teachers follow the curriculum whatever their sexuality. If any teacher was trying to influence pupils in the way you are suggesting, Khandro, they would soon be booted out of the profession.
Don't forget the majority of gay, lesbian, trans, gender fluid, bi etc are born to heterosexual parents. Years ago such children grew up not knowing of anyone else like them, feeling very isolated - thankfully times have changed.

[mushroom25]

poor teachers. it's no longer enough to teach kids about birds and bees, but also birds and birds, bees and bees, birds who are bees, bees who are birds, and bees who are birds but still have their stinger......

[Boto]

Apologies to the op. If a boy (for instance) says I want to be a girl, I feel like a girl, how do they know what it feels like to be a girl? Do they mean they like wearing dresses, playing with dolls and other ‘girly’ things? I feel like me, I don’t think about feeling like a female, or male.

[naomi24]

When I was 8 I wanted to be a boy. So pleased no one took me seriously.

[Boto]

Naomi, you might be Norman now if they had.

[Khandro]

//Naomi, you might be Norman now if they had.//

Good point! Today you might be offered hormone therapy, councilling & even surgery. Why can't they understand that what you felt was normal?
See Carl Jung's archetypes; The Anima & the Animus.

[jno]

you're supposed to learn nursery rhymes in the nursery; school's too late for them. I never learnt one at school - the things we learnt were more like folk songs and rounds.