I’ve got a 6 month old too! He’s my third, and with the older two (4 and 2) we focus a lot everyday on consent and easily accepting the answer “no” and I’m just hoping that sticks in their little brains somehow.

Thank you for trying to raise a boy who views others as equals. We can’t make a world that treats women fairly by only educating little girls. Not enough people realize this.

Exactly. A friend with two girls and one boy called me a few years ago and she was like “Why are boys completely unable to pee in the toilet?! I never had this big of a mess with the girls!” I have no idea. I find urine in places that I had no idea they could reach. Any time they go to the bathroom I scream “Pay…

I have a college friends who is always posting photos on FB of her boy right in the middle of doing something bad or dangerous. I’m not a parent for a couple more months, but all I can think is “maybe if you spent that time just correcting the behavior rather than pulling out your phone for photos, which he equates as…

I recreated this entire sign and framed it and hung it right above my toilet tank.

My middle school aged grandson is experiencing what you have described. His mom tolerates a level of “assholeishness” no one else will or should put up with, and he is genuinely confused about what the rest of the world sees as acceptable/unacceptable behavior.

Hah. A mom I know is considering installing a tile floor and a drain just so she can hose the whole thing down.

Thanks for sharing your experience. It puts into words what I experience teaching college-aged students. The boys/men (18-22 year-olds are “adults” but their behavior suggests otherwise) get fucking MAD if you provide any sort of constructive criticism or suggestions for improvement, even though that is the point of…

I am a mom of two boys too - they’re 11 and 7. I feel like the main issues I’ve dealt with are how they’re treated by others, especially once they start school. I feel like there are different ways that they are treated - teachers sometimes seem to be a bit more patient with the girls than the boys. I have a few…

Pretty much. At work I’ve noticed the ‘boymom’ shirts means ‘I’m just going to let my kid do whatever he wants because well, he’s a boy! Shrug! What you gonna do?!’

YES. And I guarantee that every #boymom who says “well, my son has lots of energy/likes playing with toy trucks/makes fart jokes” because he’s a boy also uses that justification to excuse behavior that ranges from totally normal for a child that age (meltdowns and tantrums happen), to totally abnormal but justifiable,…

I also get cringey when I see a fellow #boymom (gross) taking her 5 year old son out for dinner and is like “Date night with Aiden!” Um, it’s not a date night. It’s you and your son out to dinner. WTF. 

Just my childless teacher 2 cents, so take with a grain of salt. If you (as a woman) define your life as a #boymom, it makes my life as said boy's teacher a bit difficult.  These boys, as middle schoolers, are very emotional that their teacher doesn't adore them with the intensity of their mom.  I genuinely like most…

Exactly. #Boymom is the precursor to “Boys will be boys.”

So I worked in a preschool and something the 2 year old classroom used to deal with was moms referring to favorite teachers as their 2 year old son’s “girlfriend”. Like “oh there’s your girlfriend” jokes about crushes etc. My theory was that this was how they made their insecurity at having their baby’s love for…

A phrase that drives me crazy is referring to a baby as “my little man.” It’s not a man. It’s a fucking baby. And maybe, if you do a good job parenting, he won’t turn out to be the kind of men we all deal with every day. 

I’m a mom of a six month old boy, but I’m not a #boymom. Not only do I not have time to read mommy blogs or get into mom culture, but it seems very limiting for mothers to build their outward identity around motherhood. I mean, yeah, I spend like 80% of my time when not working or sleeping with my baby, but at least I…

I always assumed I’d be a girl mom, I don’t really know why but it’s just what I always saw in my head. I am now the proud parent of two little boys, 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 and my only goal here is to raise kind, helpful citizens. It’s been hard for me to wrap my head around what my future might look like (sports and dirt…

My Mom had all girls and “boy moms” used to annoy her so much. They all seemed to assume that being loud, messy, and roughhousing was something only boys did. She would frequently point out that my sisters and I did all of those things (especially the story where my middle sister and I were fighting and fell onto the…

Absolutely agree with the need for better understanding of side effects while also refuting nebulous “wellness” trends. I think, sometimes, that people go to their doctors truly distressed about difficult side effects and are brushed off by their doctors so they end up seeking validation from these BS “wellness”…