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My son wants to be a cheerleader

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Being an advocate for a cause in general is quite a separate thing from letting your own kid be different.
By Kimberley Moran

June 12, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Top surgery “show and tell” with my transgender son

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He’s passing as a boy now—as long as he binds his breasts.
By Katrin Grace

May 11, 2017 Culture, Family, Obstacles

Dress codes: who gets to decide what a girl should wear?

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Leggings, spaghetti straps, midriff shirts—what’s the harm? Motherwell’s cultural conversation with parenting experts Lisa Damour, Jessica Lahey, and Peggy Orenstein.

March 27, 2017 Culture

The 10 ways my sons and daughter are not so different at all

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Is my daughter a “tomboy” or a “girly girl”? She is neither and she is both.
By Lauren Apfel

March 22, 2017 Culture

Teaching kids that women can work and be moms at the same time

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We were unwittingly showing our daughter that being a mother excludes other possibilities.
By K.C. Willivee

February 28, 2017 Culture

The myth of co-parenting

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It made me spitting mad, the way the daily duties of parenting and home ownership began to rest entirely on me.
By Hope Edelman

January 19, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

This is what happened when I Googled “morning after pill”

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Planned Parenthood is one of the last vestiges of hope in this country.
By Abigail Rasminsky

January 13, 2017 Culture

The so-called simplicity of boys

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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

December 15, 2016 Culture

How (not) to talk to someone else’s daughter

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When my daughter smiles, she is not a “beauty queen.” She smiles because she is happy.
By Marina Koestler Ruben

November 7, 2016 Culture

Why it’s important for kids to see women in power

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Hillary Clinton might not have won the presidency, but we need women to keep fighting for these roles.
By Lauren Apfel

October 10, 2016 Culture

If you give a pig a porno

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What do you say when your tween comes home talking about Princess Leia porn? A modern-day parody.
By Francie Arenson Dickman

August 16, 2016 Culture

Childhood games that conflict with consent

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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

August 8, 2016 Culture

Don’t separate my five-year-old campers by gender

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Surely what boys and girls gain from playing together should outweigh any inconvenience of having to organize separate changing areas.
By Lauren Apfel

August 4, 2016 Culture

Call our division of labor old-fashioned, I call it practical

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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

July 5, 2016 Culture

Talking to my son about abortion

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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

June 27, 2016 Culture

What we tell our daughters about body hair

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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

June 20, 2016 Culture

How motherhood made me a feminist

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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

June 6, 2016 Culture

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