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People celebrate the arrival of a new life differently.
The culprit of thisgender revealparty fiasco was the mom-to-bes nephew.
These kinds of parentsrarely useany disciplinary actions and allow their kids to do all kinds of shenanigans without consequences.
Permissive parents are usually very loving and nurturing to their children.
In some cases, as the OP describes, they can do no wrong in their parents eyes.
If they establish any rules, they are usually inconsistent.
Experts say that an effect of permissiveparentingcan be delinquency and even substance abuse in the future.
One studyfoundthat children raised by permissive parents were more likely to engage in misconduct.
As many commenters pointed out, unruly behavior in tweens only gets more difficult with age.
Behaviors likestealingat such a young age cansignala more serious behavioral problem.
This is especially true when coupled with other troubling patterns like breaking windows and suspensions from school.
A 2018 YouGov surveyrevealedthat 35% of Americans think they are unnecessary and 28% called them silly.
The Brits have similar opinions: 46.5%thinkthey are silly.
Still, 13% of the respondents in Britain said they would have a gender reveal party.
Many people bashgender reveal partiesas a concept.
Some say theyre outdated because they reinforce thegender binary.
Other gender reveal parties had some unfortunate consequences for the environment.
In 2020, one such partyresultedin a massive wildfire in California.
A crop dusting plane crash in Texasinjureda person in agender reveal gone wrongin 2019.
Even the woman who started the gender reveal party trend now says they should be obsolete and unnecessary.
The woman, Jenna Myers Karvunidis, even likened the trend to inventing gunpowder.
Bianca tells me there are more than two genders and many sexualities.
I hadnt considered all this before, KarvunidistoldThe Guardian.
With the gender-reveal, youve isolated one aspect of this person.
When it gets elevated as being central to your identity, thats problematic.
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