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Good morning, how are you? I would like to share a new children’s book I received. Gender Identity for Kids: A Book About Finding Yourself, Understanding Others, and Respecting Everybody! by Andy Passchier (Author). Before you read this review I would like to remind you the information in this book might not be for everyone and you should read the book before sharing with your children. The opinions of the book are mine but may not agree with you and also may not be something my family believe in or understands but we are trying.
Here I go aging myself again as a child I am sure there were people that had trouble with identifying with being a man or women but jut like GAYS we didn’t hear about. As a mom here I am trying to come to terms with teaching my son all of this which I am not sure children need to know about. But I don’t want someone else teaching my child or him having questions and feeling like he can’t talk to me.
I was happy to receive a copy of Gender Identity for Kids which has not only taught me things I didn’t know but has allowed me to find out what Charlie knows in a healthy safe way. We were able to discuss his friends who were born girls but have decided they don’t want to be either girls or guys which I hadn’t ever had the opportunity to be around.
Just like us they are people and deserve to be treated with respect just like my Uncle Chuck who was gay but as a child it was never addressed know what that was until I grew up. As children we just thought his friend Charles was his roommate. From the BIBLE we’ve been know its one man for one women.
I read through the book I found words I didn’t know which allowed me to share them with Charlie in our Homeschool Health Class. I love how it touched on places that you might find someone different than you like a restroom which can be a scary place for a child. Even though Charlie is 16 and a man I still get a uneasy feeling when Charlie ask to use the restroom in a public place which he doesn’t ever do unless David is with us.
Going into the stores now is uneasy for me because you can be walking through the store and find men dressed like women and then you have to explain these things to our children. As for my niece and nephew and children’s friends I know gender identity might not be something you want to share with them but it’s our jobs as parents to prepare them and Gender Identity for Kids will allow you to do this in a positive way.
I love how Gender Identity for Kids is easy to read for children of all ages. I can see even little children reading Gender Identity with the help of there parents. I also believe this book should be in every Church, school, Counselors office and doctors’ offices that deal with children. Let’s ban together and prepare our children for a changing world.
About the book:
Help kids make sense of who they are and how they feel with this illustrated guide to understanding and answering questions about gender.
What is gender and what does it mean to you? What are ways people express their gender? What if you don’t feel like the gender everyone says you are? This new resource is here to help kids make sense of who they are and how they feel.
As you grow up, you receive lots of messages about gender. Most kids start to define their own gender identity as early as age four! But what if the messages you receive don’t seem to describe you? What if the things you like don’t match who people say you are? What if you don’t even know what gender you are?
From the illustrator behind What Are Your Words? and other books on gender and personal identity, comes a resource for all kids, of any gender. This fun, heavily illustrated chapter book explains the basics of gender identity—what it is, what it means, and how to support yourself and others no matter who you are.
Meet the Author: Andy Passchier
(They/them) is a trans nonbinary illustrator originally from the Netherlands and currently based in the USA. In their work, they focus on diversity, inclusivity, and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ topics. They have illustrated several children’s books regarding love, family, gender identity, and pronouns, with Gender Identity for Kids being the first book they both wrote and illustrated. Outside of illustrating, they enjoy hanging with their cats, playing D&D, video games, Halloween, and shows about aliens.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
