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Summary:
The Child Care Information Exchange, a group of day care
professionals based in Redmond, Washington, recently published
two articles recommending the normalizing of cross-dressing
and homosexuality for children who attend day care centers.
Parents
who use day care centers for their children may soon find
that their children are going to be exposed to explicit
sexuality education, including such topics as homosexuality,
cross-dressing, and family "diversity."
The
Child Care Information Exchange (CCIE) has recently published
two articles that encourage day care workers to begin
discussing sexuality issues with the children under their
care. The articles, "Developing Sexual Identity Through
Play, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Tolerance," and
"Healthy Sexuality Development in Young Children,"
are both available for downloading from the CCIE web site.
In
"Healthy Sexuality Development" authors Kent
Chrisman and Donna Couchenour recommend that day care
educators must teach sexuality in a non-judgmental way
and should fight gender stereotyping by allowing boys
and girls to wear opposite sex clothing in "dramatic
play centers." In addition, "Stories will be
read that include a variety of family configurations."
Professionals
who deal with Gender Identity Disorders such as cross-dressing
have cautioned against allowing children to wear cross-gender
clothing because it creates confusion in them and stunts
their proper psycho-sexual development into a masculine
boy or feminine girl.
Chrisman
and Couchenour also recommend that day care workers use
anatomically correct words for male and female sex organs.
In addition, "Children who masturbate will be guided
to understand that this is personal behavior and is appropriate
for private time but not group time…"
In
"Developing Sexual Identity," author Lynn Baynum
notes the following:
"Parents rely on child care professionals as surrogate
care-givers. … They buy into the academic and social
agendas that these systems provide. So too, parents should
rely on schools and child care systems to describe healthy
attitudes toward sexuality."
As
part of this mission of creating "healthy attitudes"
toward sexuality among day care children, Baynum suggests
that day care workers create a climate of "tolerance"
and "acceptance" and to showcase "many
types of families." Day care children are to participate
in role playing games to be taught to be tolerant of family
differences and family choices.
Baynum
urges day care workers to avoid having children play traditional
family roles as mother and father but to "encourage
the children to be nurturers" instead.
Access
these documents by going to the CCIE web site.
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