Scott Card
01-20-2012, 04:43 PM
Another parent of the year nominee.... :facepalm1::facepalm1::facepalm1::facepalm1::facep alm1::crazycobasa::wallbash::wallbash::wallbash:
Couple Finally Reveals Child's Gender, Five Years After Birth
It's a boy! And he's five. Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, have spent half the decade concealing the gender (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Aun1LLi8F3jQSVidP1HHa.95bqU5;_ylu=X3oDMTFnMTF lb21tBG1pdANCbG9nUG9zdEJvZHkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhQ mxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMyanR1N3VxBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRw c3RhaWQDNTkyYWJjYTktMjQ3NC0zMTJlLTkwYmYtM2U3MTQ5OD llOWU1BHBzdGNhdANwYXJlbnRpbmcEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRl c3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=119jugts9/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//yhoo.it/wLaqrY) of their son (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AtA.TV2upkcEQDB***71GBB5bqU5;_ylu=X3oDMTFnaWF nZWRzBG1pdANCbG9nUG9zdEJvZHkEcG9zAzIEc2VjA01lZGlhQ mxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMyanR1N3VxBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRw c3RhaWQDNTkyYWJjYTktMjQ3NC0zMTJlLTkwYmYtM2U3MTQ5OD llOWU1BHBzdGNhdANwYXJlbnRpbmcEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRl c3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=119gsig9a/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//yhoo.it/zfHydN), Sasha.
"I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping," Laxton said in an interview with the Cambridge News (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AhYGRrPVbKd20h3AR0O5aZJ5bqU5;_ylu=X3oDMTFnYjQ 3NzFoBG1pdANCbG9nUG9zdEJvZHkEcG9zAzMEc2VjA01lZGlhQ mxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMyanR1N3VxBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRw c3RhaWQDNTkyYWJjYTktMjQ3NC0zMTJlLTkwYmYtM2U3MTQ5OD llOWU1BHBzdGNhdANwYXJlbnRpbmcEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRl c3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13ah8ppq2/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Hes-pretty-in-pink-to-make-you-think-20012012.htm). "Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes?"
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
Sasha's also not short on dolls, though Barbie (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=119n11lg2/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//yhoo.it/AxhVXu) is also off limits. "She's banned because she's horrible," Laxton says in Cambridge interview.
On a macro level she hopes her son sets an example for other parents and makes them reconsider buying their sons trucks or forcing their daughters into tights. She's seen how those consumer trappings affect how and who kids play with in the sandbox.
The rest of the story....
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/couple-finally-reveals-childs-gender-five-years-birth-180300388.html
Couple Finally Reveals Child's Gender, Five Years After Birth
It's a boy! And he's five. Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, have spent half the decade concealing the gender (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Aun1LLi8F3jQSVidP1HHa.95bqU5;_ylu=X3oDMTFnMTF lb21tBG1pdANCbG9nUG9zdEJvZHkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhQ mxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMyanR1N3VxBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRw c3RhaWQDNTkyYWJjYTktMjQ3NC0zMTJlLTkwYmYtM2U3MTQ5OD llOWU1BHBzdGNhdANwYXJlbnRpbmcEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRl c3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=119jugts9/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//yhoo.it/wLaqrY) of their son (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AtA.TV2upkcEQDB***71GBB5bqU5;_ylu=X3oDMTFnaWF nZWRzBG1pdANCbG9nUG9zdEJvZHkEcG9zAzIEc2VjA01lZGlhQ mxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMyanR1N3VxBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRw c3RhaWQDNTkyYWJjYTktMjQ3NC0zMTJlLTkwYmYtM2U3MTQ5OD llOWU1BHBzdGNhdANwYXJlbnRpbmcEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRl c3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=119gsig9a/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//yhoo.it/zfHydN), Sasha.
"I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping," Laxton said in an interview with the Cambridge News (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AhYGRrPVbKd20h3AR0O5aZJ5bqU5;_ylu=X3oDMTFnYjQ 3NzFoBG1pdANCbG9nUG9zdEJvZHkEcG9zAzMEc2VjA01lZGlhQ mxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMyanR1N3VxBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRw c3RhaWQDNTkyYWJjYTktMjQ3NC0zMTJlLTkwYmYtM2U3MTQ5OD llOWU1BHBzdGNhdANwYXJlbnRpbmcEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRl c3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13ah8ppq2/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Hes-pretty-in-pink-to-make-you-think-20012012.htm). "Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes?"
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
Sasha's also not short on dolls, though Barbie (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=119n11lg2/EXP=1328316319/**http%3A//yhoo.it/AxhVXu) is also off limits. "She's banned because she's horrible," Laxton says in Cambridge interview.
On a macro level she hopes her son sets an example for other parents and makes them reconsider buying their sons trucks or forcing their daughters into tights. She's seen how those consumer trappings affect how and who kids play with in the sandbox.
The rest of the story....
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/couple-finally-reveals-childs-gender-five-years-birth-180300388.html