Dad's unwavering support for dress-wearing son
When Nils Pikert's now 5-year-old son started wearing dresses, it turned a few heads.
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What
would you do if your son liked to wear dresses?
One dad in Germany
decided to put on a skirt of his own in support his little dress-loving
fellow.
When Nils Pikert's now 5-year-old started wearing dresses, it turned a few heads, but was generally not a big deal in their cosmopolitan home town of Berlin.
When the family picked up and moved to the smaller South German village, all changed, reports Gawker.
Even though he loved wearing dresses, Pickert's son was too shy to put one on in public, for fear of being laughed at, especially by his pre-school classmates.
"I didn't want to talk my son out of not wearing dresses and skirts," Pickert told German magazine, EMMA, (translated here by blogger Steegeschnoeber).
"I had only one option left:
"To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy, and dress in a skirt myself.
"You can't expect a child, at pre-school age, to have the same ability to assert themselves as an adult, completely without role model.
"So I became that role model."
Pickert put on a skirt and strolled around town with his son in tow.
One lady apparently stared so hard she walked right into a pole, which they both found to be hilarious.
A day later, the little Pickert was back at his dress-wearing ways, first for the weekend, then to school.
Would you encourage your son to wear a dress, if he liked it?
It's something we pondered here at Shine, before.
In an article last year, Jennifer Hamilton pondered whether it's wrong to cross-dress our children, after a couple in Australia posted a photo of their foster son in a dress on Facebook.
Is it really anyone's business, she asked?
A recent article in the New York Times, "What's so bad about a boy who wears a dress", asks the same question, and drew a massive response, with the majority of readers agreeing, "dress is a cultural construction, affecting gender and identity", and, "children should be free to be themselves".
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When Nils Pikert's now 5-year-old started wearing dresses, it turned a few heads, but was generally not a big deal in their cosmopolitan home town of Berlin.
When the family picked up and moved to the smaller South German village, all changed, reports Gawker.
Even though he loved wearing dresses, Pickert's son was too shy to put one on in public, for fear of being laughed at, especially by his pre-school classmates.
"I didn't want to talk my son out of not wearing dresses and skirts," Pickert told German magazine, EMMA, (translated here by blogger Steegeschnoeber).
"I had only one option left:
"To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy, and dress in a skirt myself.
"You can't expect a child, at pre-school age, to have the same ability to assert themselves as an adult, completely without role model.
"So I became that role model."
Pickert put on a skirt and strolled around town with his son in tow.
One lady apparently stared so hard she walked right into a pole, which they both found to be hilarious.
A day later, the little Pickert was back at his dress-wearing ways, first for the weekend, then to school.
Would you encourage your son to wear a dress, if he liked it?
It's something we pondered here at Shine, before.
In an article last year, Jennifer Hamilton pondered whether it's wrong to cross-dress our children, after a couple in Australia posted a photo of their foster son in a dress on Facebook.
Is it really anyone's business, she asked?
A recent article in the New York Times, "What's so bad about a boy who wears a dress", asks the same question, and drew a massive response, with the majority of readers agreeing, "dress is a cultural construction, affecting gender and identity", and, "children should be free to be themselves".
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Controversial JC Penney ad
Does the media hate moms?
Dad's rejection has big impact on children
I think men have been wearing skirts, kilts and loin cloths far longer than pants. This lad will nave have to adjust or decide to tuck his package right or left.
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