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Nov. 4th, 2010 10:36 amMy son is gay. Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you.
I cried when I read this blog post. I have thought a lot over the years about what raising a daughter would be like, how to help her be strong and bold and happy and, as one website I read calls it, how to "redefine girly." I'm only now starting to think more about what it's like to grow up a boy, to raise a boy. Guess what: Doing it well is hard. My friend Lisa, who raised three awesome sons, shared something with me that I'm saving in the baby book: "Raising boys is awesome fun. And raising boys WELL is one of the most important thing you can do for gender equality, in my opinion. You're raising the future, my dear, do it well. :-D"
I cried when I read this blog post. I have thought a lot over the years about what raising a daughter would be like, how to help her be strong and bold and happy and, as one website I read calls it, how to "redefine girly." I'm only now starting to think more about what it's like to grow up a boy, to raise a boy. Guess what: Doing it well is hard. My friend Lisa, who raised three awesome sons, shared something with me that I'm saving in the baby book: "Raising boys is awesome fun. And raising boys WELL is one of the most important thing you can do for gender equality, in my opinion. You're raising the future, my dear, do it well. :-D"