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08-29-2016, 06:21 PM
Mom defends her 3-year-old son's choice to wear tutus
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** one, especially **t a child, should ever feel unsafe based on the clothing they want to wear.
Jen Anderson Shattuck's 3-year-old son Roo likes to wear sparkly tutus everywhere he goes with his mom — from church to the grocery store.
SEE ALSO: My son wears a dress — so what? (http://mashable.com/2016/05/05/gender-**n-conforming-son/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
For the most part, Roo and his mom don't run into any issues in their community. But recently, a man stopped her and Roo and told them that Shattuck was a "bad mother" for "allowing" him to wear his favorite wardrobe piece.*
Shattuck shared a story of the encounter on Facebook, in a post shared more than 43,000 times.
"My son and I were accosted by someone who demanded to k**w why my son was wearing a skirt. We didn't k**w him, but he appeared to have been watching us for some time," Shattuck wrote. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/mom-defends-son-tutu/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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** one, especially **t a child, should ever feel unsafe based on the clothing they want to wear.
Jen Anderson Shattuck's 3-year-old son Roo likes to wear sparkly tutus everywhere he goes with his mom — from church to the grocery store.
SEE ALSO: My son wears a dress — so what? (http://mashable.com/2016/05/05/gender-**n-conforming-son/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
For the most part, Roo and his mom don't run into any issues in their community. But recently, a man stopped her and Roo and told them that Shattuck was a "bad mother" for "allowing" him to wear his favorite wardrobe piece.*
Shattuck shared a story of the encounter on Facebook, in a post shared more than 43,000 times.
"My son and I were accosted by someone who demanded to k**w why my son was wearing a skirt. We didn't k**w him, but he appeared to have been watching us for some time," Shattuck wrote. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/mom-defends-son-tutu/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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