Conversations with my daughter.

[rivka]

It's bedtime. I tuck Alex in and reach for last night's bed companions: a stuffed mermaid and a doll named Everest.

"I don't want to sleep with them," Alex says. "They don't think a girl can get married to a girl. They think a girl can only marry a boy and a boy can only marry a girl." She picks up a tiny stuffed loon. "But Ducky believes that civil marriage is a civil right, so I'm letting him sleep here to honor him."

"...Okay," I said. "But I hope that Mermaid and Everest change their minds."

"They change their minds every day."

"Good."

...Tell me again where we draw the line between raising children with a strong sense of justice, and pushing our political opinions on our kids.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I am trying to muster up a logical response but I am blinded with PURE LOVE for the Charlie icon.

Alex is play-acting how to disagree with friends and have boundaries determined by differing beliefs, which is a fine skill to have and seems like it's just part of your family culture

I hasten to clarify that I have never slept with someone "to honor him" (or her) for having the right political positions. But yeah, other than that.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Although I bet you probably wouldn't sleep with anyone who didn't think that civil marriage was a civil right either ...