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    The Boy with Girl Hair

    October 25, 2021 - By 

    My 6-year-old son has very pretty, shoulder length blond hair, and strangers always assume he’s a girl. He never pays them any attention, and always seems to think they are just silly and if they can’t tell he’s a boy that’s their problem. So he surprised me the other day while I was washing his hair in the bath, and he asked, “Mommy, why do I have girl hair?” So I told him, “You don’t have girl hair. You don’t have boy hair. You just have hair. Girls can have short hair, boys can have long hair. It’s all just…

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    Boys Can Wear Pink Too

    November 14, 2018 - By 

    My son loves PAW Patrol, and his favorite pup is Skye. Skye just happens to be a girl and he thinks she’s very pretty and flies a cool helicopter. So, when it comes to choosing a PAW Patrol shirt, of course he goes right for the ones with Skye on them. The only problem? Every shirt with Skye is bright pink and covered with hearts and flowers and some kind of “girl power” message, as if they need to make the shirts as girlie as possible. Except here’s the thing – it’s not really a problem. My son doesn’t care.…

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    The Painted Toes

    November 14, 2017 - By 

    “We need to clean that stuff off his toes after the bath, it’s embarrassing.” When I heard my husband yell this from the bathroom, at first I was confused, because I had just clipped K’s toenails the day before and was pretty sure they were clean. Then I glanced down at my toes and realized my supposedly open-minded husband was referring to our son’s sparkling blue pedicure. I cringed a little. Wondering, was it actually embarrassing? Have I wronged our son in some way by indulging his request to have blue toes? Will he someday become a drag queen known…

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    A Boy in a Dress, So What?

    August 5, 2017 - By 

    When I was little, I won a lot of costume contests. But one contest in particular stands out to me because I didn’t win. I came in second and the winner was dressed as a maid. At first, I was upset because my mom and I had worked really hard on my black and white jester costume. But then I talked to the maid and found out “she” was a boy. Mind. Blown. I absolutely loved it. He was dressed as a girl, dressed as a maid! Double costume! I didn’t question it or think it meant anything weird. Fast…