Raising LGBTQ Allies

Wow. An excellent book for ALL parents to read.

Chris walks you through many practical ways that parents and adults who have children in their lives can make small and big changes to not only make their child feel love and supported as a LGBTQ+ youth, but also show kids how to be an ally to the LGBTQ+ children they will meet on playgrounds and within their community.

We all have learned gender roles, biases, and homophobic thoughts. Many LGBTQ+ children internalize that homophobia and carry it with them their whole lives. By addressing our own homophobia, we can help stop from passing that one to our kids, and also give them the tools they need to work through any they may internalize.

So many parents think their kids are too young to talk about being queer, much like they think their kids are too young to talk about racism. The fact of the matter is, that if kids are young enough to understand that people have boyfriends/girlfriends/husbands/wives, then they are old enough to talk about the different ways in which people can be partnered. We as parents need to move past our own discomfort and homophobia to have these important conversations with our kids. The longer we stay silent, the more we pass on the message that anything other than heteronormativity is wrong/strange/weird/taboo/not ok.

This is a great tool for any adult who wants to be a more conscious caregiver.

***Thank you to Dreamscape Media for providing me with a copy of the audiobook for free via NetGalley for an unbiased review.