Parents who hide the gender of their child, do you agree?

I understand not wanting to gender sterotype a child, but this is a bit extreme. I let my daughter watch what she wants from a small platform of tv shows. She normally chooses Diego over Dora. When she got to pick out her own shoes, she picked a pair with Thomas the Tank Engine on them. Is this going to scar her in the long run, I highly doubt that. She has cars and trucks, along with a kitchen set and baby dolls. I want her to be well rounded and not just a girlie girl.

Oh my what are they doing with their baby boy?!? They should give him the proper clothes and toys! I guess the couple wanted to have a baby girl, but still whatever they have, they should accept the baby as a boy and mold him into a real man. Or else this boy is gonna be confused.

That was a bad result of the poorest experiment ever... Now, if the boy is gonna turn girlish in the future, that will be really bad... From whom did they hide the kid's gender??? And what is stereotyping??? This was so awful.... I feel sorry for the child...

Oh dear! That poor boy is going to grow up confused and his friends might bully him! Why are those parents so silly! I can't believe they can't accept the fact that he is a boy. If they want a girl so much, why not have another kid or adopt a girl. what did they mean by eliminating stereotyping? Stereotyping of what? They shouldn't be doing that to a poor child and he might grow up miserable. How long do they think they can keep this up? Until he goes to school and realizes he's been living a lie? Some people go very over the top! Are they going to still hide the boy's gender when he hits puberty?!

I myself is a mother and i am not at all liking this idea of hiding childs gender.Everybaby born a girl or a boy is born with a number of physical and behavioural attribiutes which are according to ones gender.Like a girl has an automatic soft approach,she wil be automaticaly interested in dolls while boys in machine..its absolutely natural and even on this study has been also done. so to me it would hamper babys natural growth.and being a parent i will never do this to my baby..

I do not agree with people hiding the gender of their child because one day it will come to know to every one.

I find it interesting to hear about the couple that hid the gender of their child for five years. It was a strange thing for them to do. At least the child was able to play with what he wished to. I do think this might have confused the boy. Most days my daughter wears a dress and it wouldn't be right to do that to my son. I know that some couples like a surprise at the birth. Is it a baby boy or a baby girl sort of thing. They might have yellow or white clothes. Blue is for a boy and pink is for a girl so they wouldn't get those colors. By the time they buy 3 to 6 months clothes they would use the right color. I know that school uniforms are boy like and girl like. A child must wear the right one. By the time the boy got to school he would be very confused.

I would not worry about this at all. Nature is much stronger that nurture and if a person is born with a male brain then no amount of treating the child as a girl will stop that child growing up as male. It actually use to be quite common for boys to be dressed as girls for the first 5 or 6 years. Earnest Hemingway was dressed and treated as a girl by his mother and she even dressed him just like his sister and pretended they were twins. I don't think there is any doubt about his masculinity. As a transvestite I wish my mother had dressed me as a girl but she didn't however I still enjoy wearing female clothes but like homosexuality transvestism is something you are born with.

It's really political correctness gone completely mad. Basically trying to give their child the option to be either a boy or a girl when they get older because they dont believe that anyone should be 'stereotyped' with a gender. It is completely ridiculous at the end of the day because unless you are born a hermaphrodite, you are either male or female. If females didnt act in a certain biologically designed way, and males didnt act in a certain biologically designed way, then the whole human race would die out because that chemistry that needs to be there for people to reproduce just wouldnt exist.

I find it an interesting experiment, and I'm not against it. Human society tends to stereotype too much. If a boy wants to play with dolls and wear ballerina clothes, I see no problem. Same for a girl who wants to play with model cars and wear... well, I can't think of male only clothes for kids I don't think that kid will be confused at all. He knows his own gender, as he has to see his own body everyday. I find gender stereotypes really ridiculous, and how jugdmental society is, that's even more ridiculous.

That's odd. For me it doesn't make any sense and it is disturbing. How can you hide the gender of someone? Kids would interact with fellow kids or the kid itself will notice difference of a mother from a father. How can these couples do that? What kind of person are they trying to raise? I really don't get it.

That is wrong what your saying a child under 5 has no perception of gender in the first place. It won't affected a child at all weather they play with dolls dress up, or even play with trucks. Ive studied children behavior and mental abilities for 4 years. Scientifically what your saying is incorrect as a mother, aunt and sister law of children that are very young they don't care what the toy as long as it's fun. I played as a child with boys toys even into my teen years. Yes after I was 5 understood the difference of boys and girls and what a boy looksike and a girl looks like it didn't mess me up in any way. My nephew he's four and autistic but he still plays wou boy and girl toys. My daughter she is a year and loves playing with all kind of toys if she is the same room wig a bunch of boy toys she's going to play with what she can get her hands one. I don't hind the fact my daughter is girl. She has earings wears girl looking cloths dresses in the summer time. Half of my daughters toys are boy toys and the other have girl toys. We try to raise her gender nutural we all the same just different physically and hormone wise. Development is the same for all people. A lot of people assume if a child plays with the other genders toys that it makes them gay which isn't true.

Oh...Really exciting story...Why that parents did so???If they wish for a baby girl??I think that will be the reason..But in any way, They should not do so..That boy will become as a mix...Means Half boy and another half...Then that parents will be helpless...They should change their mentality...Right????Thank you

I think this kind of parents is not normal,Some parents can't accept like this problem.And for me if it happens in my kids in future i am ready to accept for that problem.Because its not you daughter or son fault,where they will happy we need to accept and to be happy also.

I don't understand this line of thought it worries me what other silly ideas these people would have.

I'm not sure why they hid their child's gender, but I do think it is kind of pointless the way people stereotype babies and toddlers. I think at that young age they are too young for it to really matter, you know? It's good for kids to play with all types of toys, and boys kind of get limited because they don't get the same amount of pretend play as girls do. This kind of play is good for any child. I don't think this will actually confuse him in the long run, because even 5 is too young for it to really matter.

I think that by hiding the gender of the child, it has the potential of causing a lot of problems for that little boy in the long run. Let's face it, in society as it is today, and has been for many, many years, there are just some things that are expected more of one gender than the other, regardless of the age. I get the point that the parents feel they were trying to make, but at the same time, I feel that ny trying to make their point, they may have caused some unwanted issues for their son later in life.

Oh no. That's just disaster. Why would somebody do that to their kids? What's the big deal with stereotyping? Can you send me the link about that article?

So, this means a condition where Parents don't want to accept the reality that their child is boy/girl, right? If that is what you mean, I am highly oppose this. What kind of Parents who can't accept their own child? That's very mean.