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Parenting & Pregnancy > Childhood Development What to tell a little boy who wants to wear "girl clothes": 1 of 3

Children are not bound by the same social norms adhered to most religiously by adults. In the first five years of life, children are typically able to put a great deal of information together about what is considered acceptable and what is considered unacceptable social behavior in our culture. While children are children, and not adults, they can behave in extraordinarily alien ways, through the eyes of their parents. And parents, look on, horrified that their child could come up with ideas that fall so far outside the social norm of what is acceptable. Sexuality is a hot button for a lot...
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