My 8-yr old son is turning girlish, help!!!

I wouldn't worry. Queers are the best people to have fighting alongside you in a bar room fight. They kick, scratch and bite like a woman but with the strength of a man - an awesome combination. Isn't 8 a little early to be getting worried about homosexual tendencies? He may just be the quiet sensative type. The two are not linked you know. Some of my friends are complete queens but great fun and as lively as hell.

I think you are being too closed minded about this. For a start, he is only 8. Just because he is showing some steriotypical homosexual tendancies, doesn't mean that he won't either grow out of them or keep them going while still being sexually attracted to girls. Your uncle is just causing problem by encouraging him to fight. My final point is, assuming that he is gay, what is wrong with that? Homosexuals are pretty much on the same level as heterosexuals in terms of how nice people are according to me. Would you love him any less for being gay?

if im the parent of your son. im going to worry but i cant do anything if my son desires to be like it. For me, i cant push my son to do what he cant do and a laugh from the rest of the family saying he's turning gay wont help, that wont do good and of course your child will feel it as like an abnormality,he's gonna be hurt, like he's like an abnormal being laugh by his NORMAL relatives. He's being the subject of the situation will be very unhealthy to him as he grows. Your son for sure is a sweet young man. And at his age he's just starting to adopt on things he's not used before. You can interact with him and not to isolate him from others.

are you all boys in the family? is the kid always with the gurls, or with the boys?being a gay, in my point of view, is not in the genes.. it is influential.. so ill suggest make him stay with the tough guys.. don't let him go with the gurls always cause he tends to follow the gurls gurly moves and actions.. im sure he himself does not realize that he is turning gurly, maybe that is why..

I don't see any information that your son is turning gay. You say he is turning girlish. It may be that he is just shy, sensitive and gentle. I think these are lovely traits for a man to have. Don't worry so much and don't make any rash judgments.

Please do your son a favor and let him grow and flourish the way he likes! Why do allow your relatives to laugh at your son? Imagine yourself a kid of 8 and insensitive relatives laughing at you just coz you are different. Frankly, this pisses me off. A Mom ought to protect her child from unfeeling relatives and family friends. As for you kid, I don't see anything in your post that indicates anything is wrong with him. What's wrong? Does he grow his hair? Insist of wearing skirts? Show a love for lipstick? For heaven's sake, don't act as if he is committing a crime. Show some understanding toward the child. So what if he turns gay? Or develops more feminine qualities and show an aversion to fighting? Is that so bad? Really, I feel you ought to focus on raising him to be good "human being" than to teach him to "be a man." Thanks and cheers!

What does he do that makes you think he's gay? Does he play with the girls at school or what?

And if he turns out to be gay - he's still your son and you should love him as much as now. Not leting him be the one he is (gay or not) is the worst thing you can do to him.

oh my goodness lady,i don't mean to be rude but i don't like you attitude about this. so;what the heck you tryna say? if your son turns gay,your gonna love him less? its his freakin lifestyle! you are not him. you dont know what he's feeling. he's only 8. he may feel like that now,but you never know i could be a phase. if you love your son as much as you say you do -let him be who he wants to be,whether its straight or gay. put yourself in his shoes,would you want your mother acting that way? would you want your mother to not accept you for who you are? so if you found out your father turned gay,would you hate him? God don't like ugly -REMEMBER THAT!

Your son is either gay or not gay, but you can't change that. You should just love him for who he is and move on. I love my children for who they are and about the same age my middle child acted very girly and my family laughted, I simply would state that some day he will make some man a very good wife. But, you must know, that it passed.