Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:55
The birds and the bees are fluid in free. Talking about gender and sexuality with your kids. How’s it going?
We just want to hear what's on your mind, things that have emerged, conversations you might have had, sharing those. Thank you so much for your openness and vulnerability and rawness around this. There are language issues for this that I know are clumsy for people. That's what we're here for. You don't have to be perfect. In fact, the more language emerges is between us, the bigger the gift is for all of us to listen and to learn
Ruth Steinberg
@gardening · 1:07
Hi. Well, in response to this question, it's kind of amazing. My child is a senior. He's identifies definitely as male and is finished school this year, has a lot of friends who are in all different pardes of that spectrum. But what I'm finding interesting is that the discussion is so alive amongst the parents desperately trying to work out what and how and understanding and how to fit in with their kids. So I think the generation gap is something that is unbelievable
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:52
Hey, Deborah, thank you so much for posting this question. I did want to take some time to sort of configure my thoughts because this one really sort of hits home for me as a parent. I'm the father of a boy and a girl my daughter more specifically identifies as bisexual. I am personally assist gender, male. And so to many people, I would probably be categorized as a traditional, old school binary male gender. And so all things set aside about me personally
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:36
This world is a lot of things, but at the core, people are looking to be loved and they're looking to have partnership and looking to be understood. So thank you so much for this response and I hope it invigorates others to consider how they're looking at this issue and how they can invite it into their lives in a really meaningful way. Thank you
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:54
And so I'm only suggesting that we examine the decision or the indecision that we make as parents about having these conversations. Here's the question of the day concerning this matter. Will you allow your discomfort with conversation with your children about sexuality and about its many variations and spectrum. Will you allow that to stand between a more intimate relationship with you and your child?
We just live our life according to the word of God and what his will is for our life. So my sons, they know what is what, how it's supposed to be, how to approach your female and whatever the case might be. And if they have questions, we are open to answering whatever questions they have
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:03
They live in Israel, they're Orthodox Jews, and they would have probably probably responded similar to you in the sense of really having faith in a higher power and the words of the Bible to help guide a lot of their parenting, but also in the same breath, their ability to accept whatever happens as the will of God and also their unconditional love for their kids no matter what their kids ultimately choose