Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have three children named Jazz, Kio and Storm, so it probably comes as no surprise that they don't buy into a lot of society's rules. One thing they're particularly uninterested in is gender norms - which is why they've decided to keep the sex of their youngest child, Storm, a secret, reports Parent Central. At four months old, Storm is like any other baby - but nobody, aside from the parents, siblings and a few close friends, know if this little cutie is a he or a she.

In an email to family and friends explaining their decision, Storm's parents explained: "We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now - a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...)."

Indeed, why bother gendering children at all? Infants all look alike, male or female, and there are many toddler boys who want to wear dresses and toddler girls who want to play with trucks. Why teach children that they're only allowed to like a certain set of items? Why ask them to perform a gender they're not even yet aware of?

Not everybody agrees with Stocker and Witterick's non-traditional parenting, however. Some argue that all this hubbub over gender actually makes biological sex a bigger issue than it might otherwise be. What do you think?

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