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Let Us Raise Little Boys With Gentle Hearts

Little boys don’t need toughened up. Little boys don’t need to have their emotions dismissed. Little boys don’t need to be told to stop crying.…

Dear son, I prayed for you before you were born. I prayed for your arrival. I pray with you before meals and bedtime. But I also pray for you alone.…

I’m not just raising my children, I’m raising someone’s husband. I’m raising someone’s son-in-law. I’m raising someone’s…

We’ve got a house full of boys: four of them, ages seven and under. We’ve been told they’re the quietest, most well-behaved…

He doesn’t see a weed. He sees something that will make Mommy smile. He doesn’t see a weed. He sees something to blow on that sheds out into…

I’m a mama to three. My first was deceptively easy. A calm baby, an easy-going toddler, and a sweetheart of a preschooler. She was the reason I had…

I used to imagine my imaginary daughter and me in matching white dresses running hand-in-hand through a field of wildflowers. I imagined us laughing…

Hey friend, Do you remember me? It’s been a while, I know. I sat behind you in civics in junior high. Do you remember me? You were my base on the…

When I found out I was pregnant with a boy, I cried. And not with joy. I sobbed to my mother on the phone, “A boy?! What am I going to do with a…

My 9-year-old son slept poorly seven nights ago. He awoke the next morning with tears in his eyes. I sent him to bed with bad news ringing in his…