Should I be Concerned About My 5-year-old Son and Gender Identity?

My five-year-old son is obsessed with princesses and often says he wishes he was a girl. Should I be concerned? You know, I, I don't, uh, know if there's anything to be concerned about there. It's, it's maybe get more information. Uh, right. What is it? What is it that you're playing And, and, and you say you'd like to be a girl. Just have your child talk. Just have your child talk and, and ask questions. I would be cautious not to direct a child what to feel or what to think because you want to make sure that there's an open dialogue between you and your child. And, and often we're just letting our children explore, talk. Uh, uh will it stay that way? I don't know. But what I do know is your ability to create a safe enough environment where they can talk and be open is really an important part here. Helping them explore their thoughts, their emotions, and then giving them experiences, right? Uh, experiences that are both in this situation. I wish I was a girl. Well, okay, what does that mean? Um, do they enjoy boy things playing with trucks? Do they en, does he enjoy? Right? I, again, it's, it's being with his child, figuring out what he likes in this situation. And I wanna be cautious there not to unduly influence my child to think or feel in any direction. I want my child to explore. Because usually what happens there is that even as they get older, there will be a lot of outside influences, but you wanna make sure that you are the safe places, the parent that they can come and talk about their feelings, whatever they may be, no matter what. I'm a safe person for my child. And that's really the ultimate goal here, to help your child and also guide your child into activities that will help them understand more about themselves. Like a, a again, there are, there's a great value in learning sports and learning arts and music, and a talent just developing the talents. And so I would wanna give a five-year-old as they develop and mature as much opportunity to develop skills as possible. But I wouldn't be concerned if my child says, I, you know, I wish I was a girl. You, you like playing with dolls or you like playing with that? Okay. It's the creative mind. We have to understand developmentally, children are creative and the, their imaginations, and they play games and they play, they, they do, they just create stories. And it's a, it's a fascinating way. In fact, one of my, uh, professors, when I was going through child development, he said that child's imagination is to be brought into a place where it can grow and ask questions and ask questions. So the best thing that we can do with children at that age is let them ask questions. Let them have imagination, and they come to a point where they know their creativity can be expanded. And really that's what we want to do is create that kind of an environment where their creativity, creativity can flourish. And so I wouldn't necessarily be concerned, I would wanna just create this connection, your relationship with the child. And, and, and over time, uh, things will continue to manifest in, in whatever way they continue to grow and develop. I would wanna make sure that they have lots of opportunities for those things.