fantastic!And very cute kids.
I’m a Unitarian Universalist… our denomination is affirming of GLBT folk, marriage equality etc. Yesterday a friend was describing driving two young boys from our congregation on a field trip to a farm this month, and listening to the boys talking about homosexuality, same sex marriage, and transexuality in their own simple words, with a nice accepting tone to their conversation. She was delighted and so am I, because to a great extent this reflects on how deeply their parents believe and convey our congregational values to their children.
     We still need to do more to help our children and youth grow up comfortable with all forms of gender identity and expression, though.

Very amusing, and very refreshingThis looks like a Dutch version of “Kids Say the Darndest Things”?  

This is great!Kids have a very simple “Oh- okay” manner about so many issues and can accept and understand concepts so much more readily than adults.
 

they really are innocent.
Which means pure & unpolluted by hatred & prejudice, but also ignorant of almost everything. If you teach them about everything without transferring any hate or prejudice, they may grow up to be decent human beings. It’s worth a shot.
At that age, they don’t know they’re supposed to have an opinion about everything, to judge, to label. They just stare at everything with wide eyes and try to understand. It’s really important that they have adults and older kids around who are not all screwed up and full of hate. That should be the kind of child abuse people are concerned with, not some theoretical paranoia of gays in contact with kids.
My godfather was gay, so “gayness” was just another incomprehensible fact about the mysterious world of the adults, like sex or childbirth or how to drive a car. You learn it all when you need to know, the right way, if they let you.
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My favoriteWell, my favorite from the Dutch is the “Two Fathers”. In case, you don’t know it’s below.

WowSee the difference between the United States and a country with a real civilization?

Watching this is truly amazing..…so nice to know that there are civilized cultures out there in the world.

translation correction…..when they ask the kids ‘Waarom is het raar?’ they’re asking ‘Why is it strange/unusual?’
They’re NOT asking why it’s ‘rare’…..
One kid answers ‘It’s strange but it’s fun/nice’

Thank you.Thank you for posting this video.  This made my day

I have to wonder…how much more enlightened the US would be if it had declared independence from the Netherlands rather than the UK.
Of course, if it had been a Dutch colony the chances of the US declaring independence that early would have been comparatively slim compared to what actually happened – the Netherlands was a republic until the Napoleonic Wars, and as in the USA social status was determined by wealth, rather than by birth as in the rest of Europe. The cultural divide that resulted in the War of Independence simply wouldn’t have existed between the thirteen colonies and seven provinces.

Kids get itWhen my godson turned 9, he asked if I had a boyfriend. I told him no, I had a girlfriend. He processed a minute, then asked if she was cool. I told him, “Well, she likes Spiderman and Star Wars.” His face lit up. He so easily accepted that sometimes girls have girlfriends and boys have boyfriends, and that is perfectly fine.
Later on, he asked, “Do you guys, like, kiss and stuff?” I told him yes, that my girlfriend and I have grown-up kisses like Mommy and Daddy have grown-up kisses, and if he had questions about that when he got a little older, he could ask me anything he wanted about that and I would explain. So far there haven’t been any questions about THAT, because girls still have cooties and kissing is yucky.
He did ask about gay slurs after hearing a neighborhood kid use the word “fag.” That was a bit more difficult to explain. It was sad watching his face fall when I told him that some people hate me just because I have a girlfriend, and that people use slurs to show hate. He doesn’t understand hate. He just understood that his godmother has a girlfriend who is cool, who likes Spiderman just like he does.

Godson?!Er…shouldn’t that be lack-of-god-son?  :)

Absolutely beautiful!And a talented singer too.

Beautiful!I think far too many people underestimate children. Since I can only speak about this country, the US, I think we enforce stupidity in children to keep them “innocent”. But its to our detriment and theirs that we think them mentally unable to think past cartoons.

I’m not quite an atheist, QBein’ a recovering mormon doesn’t mean I’m a godless commie bastard! Just a full-moon-dancing, dirt-luvin’ heathen.

LesbiansI remember the first time I heard about anything same-sex.  My mom was saying that she thought one of her cousins was a lesbian.  I was about third or fourth grade.  And I remember not thinking that there was anything strange about that.  A girl who likes girls, that’s pretty much it.
Then my grandma got in the car and her name was brought up and I was like “Mom is she the lesbian?”  And she shushed me up really fast.  Until that point I didn’t think there was anything wrong with that statement.
It was then I realized that there was something wrong.  Something not to be said.  And that is the moment I hope most of the upcoming generation is avoiding.