Where do you draw the line? Not being combative, just curious. Like my toddler should not have bodily autonomy. I don’t think a 5 year old would handle that responsibility well either. At what age do you get it, or does it increase gradually?
I try to let my toddler choose who they hug, or let them pick their clothes when I can, but they are very dumb. They don’t understand the consequences of not wearing shoes, or insisting on a jacket on a hot day. They should have little to no autonomy over their diet or it would just be 15 bananas and constant constipation.
I am ON BOARD for discontinuing the barbaric genital mutilation that is the norm in my country, but do you let a teen get a breast augmentation or a nose job just because their high school peers are bullies? Your teen’s (and young adult’s) brain isn’t done cooking. Where’s the line for body modification expression? Even just evidence of ear piercings don’t go away fully for decades.
What are the basic rights kids and teens should have? (And sorry to hear you live in a community where physical abuse is normalized)
A person with childhood trauma or ADHD has a brain that doesn’t fully mature until well into their 30s. This is not a reason to deny someone bodily autonomy. If everyone else can smoke and drink whiskey, the gall it takes to tell someone they can’t have tits because you think maybe they will be disappointed.
I was thinking about letting a cis girl get breast augmentation in my comment, so i wasn’t really worried about her being disappointed, more that her motivation for body modification is bullying. Kids are really mean, and unformed brains (and formed ones!) Have a hard time seeing past that into even just 4 years in the future.
I don’t think I understand your comment though, people can have whatever tits they want at 21? I’m talking about 15 year olds.
Where do you draw the line? Not being combative, just curious. Like my toddler should not have bodily autonomy. I don’t think a 5 year old would handle that responsibility well either. At what age do you get it, or does it increase gradually?
I try to let my toddler choose who they hug, or let them pick their clothes when I can, but they are very dumb. They don’t understand the consequences of not wearing shoes, or insisting on a jacket on a hot day. They should have little to no autonomy over their diet or it would just be 15 bananas and constant constipation.
I am ON BOARD for discontinuing the barbaric genital mutilation that is the norm in my country, but do you let a teen get a breast augmentation or a nose job just because their high school peers are bullies? Your teen’s (and young adult’s) brain isn’t done cooking. Where’s the line for body modification expression? Even just evidence of ear piercings don’t go away fully for decades.
What are the basic rights kids and teens should have? (And sorry to hear you live in a community where physical abuse is normalized)
A person with childhood trauma or ADHD has a brain that doesn’t fully mature until well into their 30s. This is not a reason to deny someone bodily autonomy. If everyone else can smoke and drink whiskey, the gall it takes to tell someone they can’t have tits because you think maybe they will be disappointed.
I was thinking about letting a cis girl get breast augmentation in my comment, so i wasn’t really worried about her being disappointed, more that her motivation for body modification is bullying. Kids are really mean, and unformed brains (and formed ones!) Have a hard time seeing past that into even just 4 years in the future.
I don’t think I understand your comment though, people can have whatever tits they want at 21? I’m talking about 15 year olds.