'There's all these judgments and all these rules and stereotypes and vibes and it's really frustrating to me.'
There are a few precious years of childhood where we go through life blissfully unaware that others may be judging what we do, how we look, and the ways we choose to express ourselves. Andthought that, at four years old, her son, Genesis, still felt unburdened by the possibility of scrutiny. However, during a recent trip to the, she was heartbroken to learn otherwise — and she shared her thoughts on the experience with her 17 million Instagram followers.
That when's Genesis said something that shocked Keys. "He was like, 'People are not going to like it,'" she says. "Can you believe this? Four years old — he's four, and he already understands the concept that someone's going to judge him because he chose rainbow colors on his nails." "The way I see it is that there is masculine and there's feminine energies inside of us all, you know?" she says. "And it gets concerning to me that we can't just explore these different sides of ourselves, you know, these different energies that are within us."
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