Being an advocate for a cause in general is quite a separate thing from letting your own kid be different.
By Kimberley Moran
gender
He’s passing as a boy now—as long as he binds his breasts.
By Katrin Grace
Leggings, spaghetti straps, midriff shirts—what’s the harm? Motherwell’s cultural conversation with parenting experts Lisa Damour, Jessica Lahey, and Peggy Orenstein.
Is my daughter a “tomboy” or a “girly girl”? She is neither and she is both.
By Lauren Apfel
We were unwittingly showing our daughter that being a mother excludes other possibilities.
By K.C. Willivee
It made me spitting mad, the way the daily duties of parenting and home ownership began to rest entirely on me.
By Hope Edelman
Planned Parenthood is one of the last vestiges of hope in this country.
By Abigail Rasminsky
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
When my daughter smiles, she is not a “beauty queen.” She smiles because she is happy.
By Marina Koestler Ruben
Hillary Clinton might not have won the presidency, but we need women to keep fighting for these roles.
By Lauren Apfel
What do you say when your tween comes home talking about Princess Leia porn? A modern-day parody.
By Francie Arenson Dickman
There are many subtle ways in which we teach our kids it’s okay for someone to take what they want from another’s body.
By Gail Cornwall
Surely what boys and girls gain from playing together should outweigh any inconvenience of having to organize separate changing areas.
By Lauren Apfel
For now, what I hope my kids see is that family life is a team effort. We may run different plays than other families, but we’re only interested in the home field win.
By Ann Cinzar
One of the hardest parts of parenting is deciding when to let your children come to their own conclusions and when to steer them down a certain path, in the name of transmitting values.
By Lauren Apfel
What grooming habits is my daughter going to learn from me, and what will I say to her about why she might be expected to shave her legs but her brothers won’t be?
By Lauren Apfel
Being a mother made me a feminist, it brought me face to face with ugly truths about society I would have rather not seen before.
By Lyz Lenz