Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
According to our preschooler, Rosa, there are a lot of queer families at day care. Of course, she uses three-year-old vocabulary to tell us what it’s about.
“Do you know that so-and-so has two mommies?” she’ll pipe up at dinner. Then she’ll do the trademark Rosa big smile with eyebrows raised, suck in a deep breath, and wait for our response.
She’s awesome.
According to Rosa, any women picks up kids from day care (such as a grandmother, or auntie) is a mommy. Her three-year-old family queer eye includes deducing that Jane and Micheal Banks have two mommies; they are Mary Poppins and Winifred Banks. But they have a daddy, too. She won’t have her favourite movie interpreted any other way. These days won’t last long.
