ON RAISING BOYS

I’ve hesitated writing this, but it’s something that keeps coming up as a common “fear” and I wanted to kind of talk about it. Probably once a day, someone sends me a message to say how glad they are to follow me because they just found out that they’re pregnant with a boy and feel disappointed and, more often than not, scared of the unknown. It’s also not uncommon to scroll through TikTok and see someone mention how they “feel bad” for moms who do gender reveals for baby boys. I’m in Facebook groups where moms-to-be share how sad they are that they won’t see their children when they’re adults because...