any advice on coming out to your kids?

topic posted Fri, August 3, 2007 - 12:41 AM by  Kinnari
especially if they are young adults? high school, college age or around there?

thanks!
posted by:
Kinnari
SF Bay Area
  • Re: any advice on coming out to your kids?

    Sat, August 4, 2007 - 8:32 AM
    I would go slow and think about it carefully. Is there a real need? and is that need about you or your child?
    Because no matter what you are, teens don't really want to know about parents sexuality.
    How did you feel when you were teen?
  • Re: any advice on coming out to your kids?

    Sat, August 4, 2007 - 1:15 PM
    My Mom came out to me a year ago, after I came out to her. I knew already.
    • Re: any advice on coming out to your kids?

      Sat, August 4, 2007 - 9:38 PM
      Don't make a big deal out of it. Kids don't like that. Also, try to keep your private life private, do a "need to know" kind of thing. If you end up dating multiple people and feel the need to tell them something, actions speak louder than words. My teenage son found out what I was about when I started to introduce him to girlfriends, and then when I left poly-themed books around the house.
  • Re: any advice on coming out to your kids?

    Sat, August 4, 2007 - 11:56 PM
    wow! a lot of this advice contradicts each other. very interesting. yes, i've been leaving gay friendly books around and they know i have tons of lgbt..etc.... friends and work for lgbt rights.

    but i'm definitely going to tell them b/c i don't want them to hear it from someone else first. all their relatives are fundies and if they were to hear it there first, it would NOT be pretty.
    • Re: any advice on coming out to your kids?

      Sun, August 5, 2007 - 7:25 PM
      This is a touchy subject that warrants no easy answer...My daughter asked me at age 7 if I was gay and she said then that she didn't care if I was. I didn't answer her then, it was if she already knew the answer. Now that she's a teenager and has had the enfluence of her homophobic father, her tolerance is a little different. She will have to come to terms with the fact that her mother and grandmother have female lovers...I missed my opportunity to just come clean. But I keep postive queer folks in her life so she can see that we are no different than anyone else. I'm working on her homophobia by disecting comments and examples of prejudice when I hear it from her or others around her but I keep my dating seperate from parenting because its easier and less stressful for me.
      At the end of the day you have to do what you think is best and age appropriate.
      • Re: any advice on coming out to your kids?

        Sun, December 30, 2007 - 5:13 PM
        i was just wondering if the situation got any better or worse for you? i have a baby daughter and though it is still too early to worry about that conversation, want to hear stories of success and struggle in that topic to keep myself better informed

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