"When I'm King of the world I'm going to make it illegal for two men or two women to get married"

[Dottydot]

Says ds1 to me tonight....

AARRGGGHHHHH!!!!

"Why?" I said, in a calm, measured way
"because it's wrong" he says, "and you and Mummy are going to have to get unmarried".

Oh boy. Tell me it's a phase... He won't tell me where he's got this from, and up until fairly recently he was quite keen to marry his best friend Lewis, so I'm suspecting playground influence, which makes me very for him. We knew this was going to happen, but he's only 5.

So I had a nice chat with him about it all being alright for men/women to marry and how if anyone says it's not, he's got to think in his own mind about what's right and wrong and if he ever wants to talk to me about it etc.etc. Only he's not a great talker, so I don't suppose we'll ever hear the half of it.

MP . Thanks for making me LOL!!! Yes, just our luck to have a right wing Tory monarchist (with apologies to all those right wing Tory monarchists out there).

p.s. I assume you have a well-thumbed copy of "Things my mother never told me"?

Blimey. I had a terrible fear from the title that this was going to be a quote from the latest biography of G W Bush

I'm guessing that a response of "technically mummy and I are not married but rather in a civil partnership" would probably not wash with a 5-year-old?!

I know from my SILs that school is a great watershed for everyone, as others have said on this thread. Ultimately it only really matters that he has parents who love him.

Five year olds are horribly conventional, law-abiding super-snitches dottydot. They want everything in their lives to be identical to everyone else's they know at school.
You know he doesn't mean it and you know it's a passing phase. My friends with a ds had this too "You're not my actual mum so you're not my mum at at all" "Why aren't you a man?"
It passed. They get a lot more liberal and relaxed by six IME

Are there any children's books dealing with same-sex marriages?

Surely Babette Cole could raise the standard?

MP - No, actually - what's that?

Marthamoo - yes you're right. Ds1's also going through a very christian phase at the moment - puts all his trust in God, which doesn't bother me at all! Am hoping his very analytical brain (which was also questioning tonight why father christmas doesn't give the poor children in Africa as many presents as children here - due to school's flipping shoebox appeal...) will figure out that he can have his own thoughts.

So tonight we covered homosexuality and the laws surrounding, making babies and equity around father christmas's present distribution - no wonder I'm tired!

This one looks HIGHLY suitable!

Will root out that other book... hold on

There's a trend here: they are all small Tories! God-fearing, law-abiding, tut-tutting little Englanders . It does wear off big-time dottydot.

This is Babette Cole's Mummy Never Told Me - some of the reviewers sound terribly upset!

It is written from the point of view of a child in a male-and-female headed household, but there are two lovely pages covering same-sex relationships.

I've not read the book for ages - must get it out again.

MP - thanks so much for those links - I've ordered the Duke book!

Dotty, I wrote a post and my laptop crashed, how annoying, but the gist was don't worry, 5yos say and think all sorts of things ime and rarely really mean it.