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Originally Posted by meemee 
and never underestimate any children and dont blow off what they say. it could be nothing, but it could be something. i know quite a few children who knew their sexuality at 6 and announced it loud and clear - whether hetero or gay.
and never underestimate any children and dont blow off what they say. it could be nothing, but it could be something. i know quite a few children who knew their sexuality at 6 and announced it loud and clear - whether hetero or gay.
DS is 6 and has always been very clear that he's going to marry a woman. He has announced his engagement to his stepsister, the (female) dog, and me. We've made sure he knows that we don't care whether he falls in love with a man or a woman and that sometimes men love women and sometimes they love men, etc. So while this may be a product of the fact that he's never had any real interaction with gay couples, it wouldn't shock me in the slightest if DS was hetero, despite the fact that three of his four parents are queer. Regardless of the nail polish, eye shadow, flowered jeans, and baby in a sling that he wears regularly. 
for working hard to do things differently than your family when you were growing up. It's awesome that your son feels comfortable enough to talk about things like this with both you and your husband, and kudos to your DH for handling it so matter of factly.
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They were genuinely disappointed and thought that I would make babies for them to raise too. I thought they were joking, so I wasn't as gentle as they needed initially, but I made up for it in a hurry. Now they're super curious about all the possibilities for partners, and they argue over who will get my Moby wrap for their babies. My three year old wants to be a woman until he births his babies, and then he'll be a man, and breastfeed. He is also checking his sister daily when I change her diaper to see if she's going to turn into a man, or she'll do that after she births a baby, which he's not convinced isn't just waiting in there for her to get big enough to "let the baby out." Lol.
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