Three year old has asked that we put a rainbow flag on our house because he's seen them and he likes them. I sat him down and explained what it means, and now he wants one even more. I love him.

@ben
Please convey our thanks to him, from my husband and myself. 🙏

And thank you for raising a child like that.

@ben Maybe somebody raised him right.
@Twotired @ben Echoing this statement!
@stefan @Twotired I assure you both it was an accident at best!

@ben Liking rainbows, yeah, but the response to your explanation? That's a result of good parenting for sure!

(But I digress.)

@Twotired

@stefan @ben Echoing this statement!

@ben The kind of parenting where you sit down with the kid to explain difficult subjects, rather than hand-waving them off for later, is no accident.

@stefan @Twotired

@ben the kids are alright.
@ben Someone deserves a nice treat.
@ben it's so sad that bigots took rainbows from children -- literally making childhood less colorful.
@K_REY_C @ben They didn't, they'd like to but they can't.
@ben remembering visiting san francisco as a deeply repressed child in the 2000s and seeing all the rainbow flags like "i just think they're neat"
@ben That's some good parenting right there. Keep that shit up!

@ben

The old 'God's promise to never flood the earth again'?

or the new
'Diversity is Strength' meaning?

or the 'Light is composed of many wavelengths and we see them as colours when they diffract though raindrops in certain conditions' ?

all of which are valid

@Sassinake It sounds like you're confusing the rainbow itself with the rainbow _flag_.

Not sure why you'd do that, when @ben's post was quite clear about which one is involved. 🤔

@kagan @ben

not sure why you'd want to separate the 'rainbow' from the 'rainbow' flag.

@Sassinake @ben Because one is a natural, physical phenomenon, and the other is a symbol created by human beings.

Natural phenomena don't have meanings, they just are.

@Sassinake We're not a religious household. So it started with "rainbows are pretty" but finished with "rainbows are pretty important" with an understanding of the meaning of Pride. The other thing doesn't come into it for us, but no shade to anyone else's belief system.

@ben
i don't believe in Sky Wizards myself, but it makes a nice story.

One that 'believers' themselves seem to forget, when they try to turn it into something bad.

@ben I've worn out several over the years, and I think the nicest, most durable one I've had so far was from flags.com, down in Florida

all sewn stripes, domestically made, took a while to show up but worth it

the one from Flags for Good wasn't sewn, just printed, and disintegrated within a year

@ben

I'm not crying, *you're* crying. 😭

What a great kid, and what great parenting - much appreciation to you both from me.

@ben That's a three-year-old who has obviously been brought up well. 💙

@ben
That's awesome!

This is a great site to get them from. Solid mounting hardware as well.

https://flagsforgood.com/

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