ahahaha nothing too wrong with the Guardian! ;)

As a secondary school teacher (11-16) – I would say that the current cohort of kids are much more on message and actively supportive of differences these days than the adults are (and the adults are pretty good). Causes of bullying are much more difficult to define than having an easy target, so no more or less likely to be an issue than for anyone else I would say.

As a parent – every parent is an embarrassment to their children however you play it, so don’t worry – so long as you love them they’ll be fine.

Working on the concept of privacy vs secrecy at the moment and wondering why gender is such a massive deal for people anyway!

oh wow! I’m from the UK originally – I pretty much end up reading the Guardian every day :D That article only came out 2 days ago! How timely!

The mother echoes some thoughts that both my wife and I have had in as much as when we have children, we don’t want to keep it a secret, but at the same time, we don’t want it to be a point that bullies then can focus their energy on. I’d like to think when the time comes, I will raise my children viewing it as completely normal. In my experiences so far, my friends view it as completely normal – maybe my family are a bit weirded out, but that’s ok as far as I’m concerned.

This is definitely a tricky one – I’ll see if I can find something :) I wish I could be of more use to you, but sadly this isn’t something I’m familiar with!
http://www.reddit.com/r/crossdressing/comments/285vwu/just_saw_my_dad_in_a_wig_xpost_rcrossdressing/ Might be useful

We are in our 50s and have children at University at the moment, so they are back and forth from home. Whilst I have no problem with neighbours etc “finding out” I don’t want others to know when the children don’t and I especially don’t want the children to hear this information from someone else out of the blue. It will be my husband’s decision in the end whether he tells them, although whilst I felt very protective of them (and him) when I first found out I feel that – knowing our family – by the end of another year this could also be pretty much sorted.

So, I am looking for an insight from my children’s perspective to help us make this decision. The relationship with your parents is different to everyone else and my husband is very scared of screwing things up if he shares this. From my viewpoint, this is a piece of information which once known cannot be “un” known, so we would be kind of forcing them to work through it whether they want to or not. I wonder, if a parent is cross dressing, would you rather not know? If you have friends who have shared with their children would they recommend it? Are there any hints and tips to support them all if my husband decides to go ahead?

Sorry – a bit longer than the other questions, but little information about this around the internet as far as I can see. Thanks for the wonderful blog!

Great question! :D