With six children, you learn to spread anxiety thinly over everyone until it ceases to have much impact. By Jodi Bartle
boys
We’ve had a rough time lately in ways that go beyond the ordinary awkward de-nesting of middle school. By Annie O’Brien
We don’t want our boys to be “cured.” There is no cure; autism is a chronic state, like arthritis, or love. By Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan
My son plays Fortnite. I’m not worried he will grow up to be violent because of it; I’m worried how the toxic masculinity it portrays affects us all. By Sharon Holbrook
Decades ago, boys who lacked motivation were called late bloomers. Today, we call them underachievers. By Adam Price
Being an advocate for a cause in general is quite a separate thing from letting your own kid be different.
By Kimberley Moran
All the years of doing and hoping, praying and sculpting—you wait to see if it worked.
By Lisa Romeo
Is my daughter a “tomboy” or a “girly girl”? She is neither and she is both.
By Lauren Apfel
I can’t help but think ideas about simplicity mask ideas about masculinity, and what it is, and isn’t, okay to feel.
By Ashley Lefrak Grider