So my two boys (6yr and 8yr) and I are watching Netflix. My youngest son decides to watch Rugrats. The episode was called the Duckie Clan. In this episode two of the boy babies are trying to figure out why its ok for the girls to wear what ever clothes they want, but the boys can't wear a dress. So they decide that they are going to wear dresses. They eventually end up in the park and find some other male babies to play with. The male babies think they are girls since they are wearing dresses and start giving them things like candy. Of course the Rugat babies think this is great and keep up the show and pretend they are girls. Eventually their new friends find out that they are boys wearing dresses and start to go after them to figght with them. In the end they are saved by a group of Scottish babies that think they are part of the Duckie Clan (since one of their dresses has ducks on it). The Scottish babies fend off the boys that were trying to beat the Rugrats up. The parents end up finding them and think its great that they wanted to play in dresses.
I was actually suprised to see a childerens show like this adressing this issue. So I got to have a nice talk with my kids about what they thought. Whether they thought it was ok for them to wear dresses, and if the other babies were mean. My oldest son said that he didn't think the other babies should have wanted to beat them up because they were just wearing a dress. They weren't hurting anyone....
That brought a smile to my face. It let me know that I'm guiding them in the right direction. I do my best to not let them judge people based on how they look, dress, or present themselves. I try to teach them that its the actions that people take that really define who they are.