If you get that house I'll move near you just to help you put it together and decorate it. That is gorgeous. I've always been fascinated by dollhouses and miniatures...I'd love to have one with working twinkly lights, perfectly scaled antique furniture, and architecture that is true to the time period. **swoon**
My son wants a dollhouse for the holidays.
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If you get that house I'll move near you just to help you put it together and decorate it. That is gorgeous. I've always been fascinated by dollhouses and miniatures...I'd love to have one with working twinkly lights, perfectly scaled antique furniture, and architecture that is true to the time period. **swoon**
LOL! Thanks, but no thanks BlondeTM! I'm putting that together all by myself. Part of what I like about woodworking is the solitude.
You can help decorate it though. I'm no good at that part. Building, lighting, painting, sure, but not drapes and shit. I'd like to get a small lathe to turn parts and build a lot of scale furniture for it. Someday....
You can help decorate it though. I'm no good at that part. Building, lighting, painting, sure, but not drapes and shit. I'd like to get a small lathe to turn parts and build a lot of scale furniture for it. Someday....
Decorating is the best part!
I need to make a gingerbread house this Christmas or I'll end up spending a few hundred on a dollhouse that I can't afford to spend!
I need to make a gingerbread house this Christmas or I'll end up spending a few hundred on a dollhouse that I can't afford to spend!
Hmm........ tough one, Turbo.... All I can say is I used to have a purple sparkly "my little pony" toy horse when I was around that age. It smelled good. I think I just pretended to make it run around, or it would get hurt by my army toys and I'd feel bad for it.
Strangely to most guys here, this didn't mean I would turn out gay. In fact, the opposite.... I love to eat pussy more than any other guy i know. hahahahha
Strangely to most guys here, this didn't mean I would turn out gay. In fact, the opposite.... I love to eat pussy more than any other guy i know. hahahahha
When I was very wee (2 or 3), my parents bought me a dolly and a dolly carriage. The dolly lived on the floor while my hockey card collection overflowed the dolly carriage. That is what I recall as being the end to the 'girl' toys I got and my parents trying to stuff me into a gender role that matched my sex and not my gender. As I grew up, my parents started buying me boy toys - transformers, lego, gi joes, etc. and allowed me to play with the other boys - even offering opportunities for me to play soccer/softball with the boys. They, along with everyone else, labelled me as a "tomboy" and eventually a "dyke" - which seemed to fit, but not quite right.
Growing up, most of my life didn't quite make sense until a couple of years ago when I started seeing a doctor for gender dysphoria before being diagnoed with GID (Gender Identity Disorder). The last thing in the world I wanted was to undertake transitioning because of how the world viewed it and I saw it as something that would kill my career. A whole lota drugs, sex, and drinking didn't seem to make it go away and it wasn't until I took the plunge and started transitioning that life started getting beter. Did you know that approximately 30% of teen suicides are LGBT related? And of that, something like 70-80% are trans youth that don't know how to deal with being trans?
I'm not saying your kid is anything other then normal, but contrary to what some have said above, gender dysphoria has been documented at as young an age of 2. Best you can do is let him play with what he wants. It's more the adults then the kids you have to worry about. Chances are, he will grow out of it - he is just a normal kid that wants to play with something that interests him. If it starts turning into something more then that, just love the kid and let him know he's normal and try to respect what he needs and wants out of life - even when you don't understand it. If he is trans in some sense, it will cause him a lot less grief later on in life if you just humour him in what he wants/needs. It could quite frankly be what saves him from taking his own life.
There's a lot of crap that goes along with being trans because of how the world views it - plain and simple, we're freaks!!! Chances are, you have met someone who fits in the realm of trans and you didn't even know it. I am a 31 year old FTM (female-to-male transexual) that has been told he's their most sane and stable patient by both his doctor and counsellor. I've had a successfull although not overly fulfilling career and lead a normal life. I am in the process of getting myself into a position to go back to school to learn more about this stuff thru gender studies, sociology and psychology. Oh, and I'm also the new daddy to an adorable 5 week old boy! Even I am scared of the day he tells me he wants a dolly... since I look forward to playing with all his boy toys
Growing up, most of my life didn't quite make sense until a couple of years ago when I started seeing a doctor for gender dysphoria before being diagnoed with GID (Gender Identity Disorder). The last thing in the world I wanted was to undertake transitioning because of how the world viewed it and I saw it as something that would kill my career. A whole lota drugs, sex, and drinking didn't seem to make it go away and it wasn't until I took the plunge and started transitioning that life started getting beter. Did you know that approximately 30% of teen suicides are LGBT related? And of that, something like 70-80% are trans youth that don't know how to deal with being trans?
I'm not saying your kid is anything other then normal, but contrary to what some have said above, gender dysphoria has been documented at as young an age of 2. Best you can do is let him play with what he wants. It's more the adults then the kids you have to worry about. Chances are, he will grow out of it - he is just a normal kid that wants to play with something that interests him. If it starts turning into something more then that, just love the kid and let him know he's normal and try to respect what he needs and wants out of life - even when you don't understand it. If he is trans in some sense, it will cause him a lot less grief later on in life if you just humour him in what he wants/needs. It could quite frankly be what saves him from taking his own life.
There's a lot of crap that goes along with being trans because of how the world views it - plain and simple, we're freaks!!! Chances are, you have met someone who fits in the realm of trans and you didn't even know it. I am a 31 year old FTM (female-to-male transexual) that has been told he's their most sane and stable patient by both his doctor and counsellor. I've had a successfull although not overly fulfilling career and lead a normal life. I am in the process of getting myself into a position to go back to school to learn more about this stuff thru gender studies, sociology and psychology. Oh, and I'm also the new daddy to an adorable 5 week old boy! Even I am scared of the day he tells me he wants a dolly... since I look forward to playing with all his boy toys
He's not gay. He knows exactly what he's doing. Dollhouses are babe magnets when you're 5. All the girls will want to come over and play with it- but all the other boys won't want any part of it. Do the math: he gets all the women to himself while his buddies are all outside crawling around in dog shit and eating dirt.
It's all the man-made chemicals in our environment that mimic female hormones, I tell ya!
If your kid _only_ wants to play with girly things, then you can kiss a football scholarship and grandchildren goodbye, I'd say.
If he makes a beeline for trucks and/or guns in the toyshop, all is well.
Masculinity isn't popular at the moment, but to quote Kipling:
"It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'Chuck 'im out, the brute!',
But he's the hero of his country when the guns begin to shoot".
If your kid _only_ wants to play with girly things, then you can kiss a football scholarship and grandchildren goodbye, I'd say.
If he makes a beeline for trucks and/or guns in the toyshop, all is well.
Masculinity isn't popular at the moment, but to quote Kipling:
"It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'Chuck 'im out, the brute!',
But he's the hero of his country when the guns begin to shoot".
Does he like Star Wars? Do you know how awesome some of those star wars toys were? They had an entire set of star wars with action figures and everything, in places like tatooine. This is like the male version of a dollhouse. Legos do the similar thing. So get him something that is the male version of a dollhouse - trust me, go to a toystore and you will see plenty of things. Basically all you are looking for is something that has action figures on a set of some sort.
Get him one of these instead if your so worried about the "How everyone is going to think bullshit." You don't think people are going to make worse judgments about him in his life?
At least if he can't use it maybe daddy can while mommy is playing on the interweb all day
At least if he can't use it maybe daddy can while mommy is playing on the interweb all day
Hi Jacob,
Thanks for sharing that. It can't be easy to do on a board like this. (and now I feel bad about the tranny midget jokes we were making a few days ago...please tell me you're not a midget too ) My husband and I were just watching a showtime/hbo (can't remember which) special on Transgender Identity disorder and it was heart wrenching watching the parents (the 6 year old kid seemed just fine) with how much they worried. They weren't worried about the kid herself (male-->female) they were worried about how others were going to treat her. They worried for her safety and her life as well as her mental health. But they were embracing who she was and I was happy they were able to do that. As long as the kids have a good family support system, it seems they usually get along just fine in the world (which I guess goes for anything) Anyways, congrats on the new baby! I wish you many nights of sleep!!
Lauren
Thanks for sharing that. It can't be easy to do on a board like this. (and now I feel bad about the tranny midget jokes we were making a few days ago...please tell me you're not a midget too
) My husband and I were just watching a showtime/hbo (can't remember which) special on Transgender Identity disorder and it was heart wrenching watching the parents (the 6 year old kid seemed just fine) with how much they worried. They weren't worried about the kid herself (male-->female) they were worried about how others were going to treat her. They worried for her safety and her life as well as her mental health. But they were embracing who she was and I was happy they were able to do that. As long as the kids have a good family support system, it seems they usually get along just fine in the world (which I guess goes for anything) Anyways, congrats on the new baby! I wish you many nights of sleep!!Lauren
Actually you've got it backwards. Hate to be the one to tell you this but you used to be a girl. Everyone starts off as one.
Look it up.
Hi Jacob,
Thanks for sharing that. It can't be easy to do on a board like this. (and now I feel bad about the tranny midget jokes we were making a few days ago...please tell me you're not a midget too
Lauren
No worries, I know I'm far from being in Vancouver (which is very queer positive) when posting on WF but also know that you probably won't get any other posts like mine on here
how did i miss out on the tranny midget jokes? i find that in and of itself to be funny considering how tall some of those ladies are! or were you referring to us trannyboys that tend to be short? I've come to learn it's not about size - but rather what color, quantity, and shapes your partner can choose from
At least when he marries his life partner later on in life, you'll be gaining another son. Sure he won't have kids with his own genes, but he can always adopt. Lots of gay couples do that.
Get a Barbie house and Ken can decorate for his Barbie. Then GI Joe can visit w/his buddies. It'll be one VERY happy Barbie.
Don't worry, he might just have a role model he saw who decorates. There are many women who like "guy" stuff and match well with a men who like "girl" stuff.
Besides, if something happened to him, would it matter WHAT he was playing with or that he was HAPPILY playing? Life is short, let him enjoy it! He can always get a cool Barbie vehicle to play with. They are not all pink!
Don't worry, he might just have a role model he saw who decorates. There are many women who like "guy" stuff and match well with a men who like "girl" stuff.
Besides, if something happened to him, would it matter WHAT he was playing with or that he was HAPPILY playing? Life is short, let him enjoy it! He can always get a cool Barbie vehicle to play with. They are not all pink!
Does he spend alot of quality time with his dad? What kind of things do they do together? I think the legos are a wonderful idea, tell him to build his own house with them, and maybe get dad to help. It shouldn't be too hard to get dad to participate, as no man can turn down an opportunity to play with legos, no matter what age!
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