{"id":2152,"date":"2008-09-03T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-03T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:30:38","slug":"carrie-smith-preparing-your-kids-to-deal-with-less-evolved-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/09\/carrie-smith-preparing-your-kids-to-deal-with-less-evolved-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Smith: Preparing your kids to deal with less-evolved adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As gay parents, we educate our straight neighbors on a daily basis.  Our kids need to be teachers too &#8211; and this is considered a good thing by some or a bad thing by others.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/user\/664\"><strong>Carrie Smith<\/strong><\/a> alerts us to the inevitable moment, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/way-out-parenting-6-steps-to-prepare-young-children-for-dealing-with-less-evolved-adults\/\">when you least expect it, a stranger will pat your child\u2019s head and say, &#8216;Your mom and dad must be so proud of you!&#8217;<\/a>.  Carrie warns that &#8211; unless you\u2019ve prepared your child &#8211; she won\u2019t know what to say.<\/p>\n<p>This seasoned mom offers gay parent\/child coaching tips for encounters like this, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Review  the many types of family structures found around the world and the many avenues to parenthood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Model for your child how to respectfully correct a less-evolved adult: \u201cActually, I don\u2019t have a mom and dad, Mrs. Smith. I have two dads\u2014Daddy Ed and Daddy Gordon. Would you like me to introduce you to them?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Along with the hilarious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;be prepared for him or her to enlighten every less-evolved adult they encounter at the top of their lungs: &#8220;<cite>I have a donor &#8211; not a dad. And he got 1584 on his SATs! What did you get on your SATs<\/cite>?&#8221;<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"#https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/blog\/664\">Read all of Carrie&#8217;s blog<\/a>, and become more evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As gay parents, we educate our straight neighbors on a daily basis. 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