By Elizabeth Lesser — 2010
A friend asked me if becoming a grandmother made me feel old. I didn't know what to say. It's not that it makes me feel. Rather, it makes me know what matters; it wakes me up.
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A mother recounts the pushback she received from her own family in raising a gender-nonconforming child.
More and more parents are deciding to raise their kids gender-neutral. Experts explain what it is, when parents should start, and how it affects a child's development.
We weren’t going to assign a gender or disclose their reproductive anatomy to people who didn’t need to know, and we were going to use the gender-neutral personal pronouns they, them and their.
Gender isn't limited to boys and girls, so it's time to break the habit of assuming people must be one or the other. The best place to start? Teaching the right concepts to our children.