What To Do When Your Kid Asks What Gay Means

Happy, it mean's happy. Merry and gay. Associate it with Christmas.

A gay person is someone who goes out with/dates someone of the same sex.

Depending on the age of the child, that is all you have to say.

Happy, it mean's happy. Merry and gay. Associate it with Christmas.

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Which brings me back to The Gay Talk. I've been reading a bit about it lately and when I decided to write this column, I immediately felt smug about my excellent sources.

My son's best friend has two dads. My daughter's classmate has two mums and two dads. My four-year-old's pre-school teacher is gay. So one after another, I bowled up to them and asked for their brilliant insights into The Gay Talk.

One after another, they cocked their heads and blinked at me, puzzled. "Um ... oh ... well ... you know ..."

"I've never had to have that conversation," all the parents said eventually, as if I'd asked them to explain how to breathe.

My son's pre-school teacher was more direct: "It's a mistake to talk to kids about things when they're not actually interested. At pre-school, it never comes up. We have the rainbow flag pinned up on the noticeboard next to the indigenous flag to signify that we embrace everyone and that's enough."

Right. OK. Point taken. To many kids, including my own, having gay parents is as unremarkable as being adopted or being an only child. Gay people are embedded into their world to the point where The Gay Talk is kind of redundant.

But not every child has that kind of immersive experience. What if they DO ask questions?

On his blog, Adventures of a Gay Superdad, Jerry Mahony recently wrote a funny, helpful post about how to explain The Gay to The Kids.

Among his tips, he suggests:

USE the word "gay".

YOU don't have to pretend half the world is gay (having two dads or two mums is less common than having one of each - just avoid words with value judgments attached like "abnormal" or "strange").

GET your mind out of the gutter (no need to talk about sex - like being straight, being gay is not just who you sleep with, it's who you love).

IF your kid does ask you to speculate, you can tell them they'll "probably" be straight (statistically that's true).

REMEMBER the magic phrase, "Everyone ends up with the right parents for them".

And there's nothing remotely awkward about that.......


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I would explain that being homosexual meant that you liked the same sex and then I would explain that hetero meant you like the opposite sex.
I would then say that it is up to each individual to decide what is right for them and to take their time in figuring out which they were.

Happy, it mean's happy. Merry and gay. Associate it with Christmas.

Tell them the correct term is homosexual, and it's a sin that is a perversion of God's best design. And tell them to hate the sin but not the sinner.

"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleaness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

For this reason God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; mem with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet."
Romans 1:24-27

Have gay sex in front of them. Tell them it's normal because it's a lifestyle choice.

Um... No. According to God you are to hate the sin, and kill the sinners!


"If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."


Leviticus 20 Verse 13

Read the whole law, not just the parts that are "politically correct".

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Stupid! How old are you?