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Title: Raising A Boy In Pink A Mom Talks About Raising a Gender Non-Conforming Child
Post by: Shana A on June 25, 2011, 08:00:28 AM
06.22.11
Raising A Boy In Pink

A Mom Talks About Raising a Gender Non-Conforming Child. 
By Sarah Hoffman
{Part 1 of our 2-part series on Kids and Gender}

http://www.themotherco.com/2011/06/raising-a-boy-in-pink/ (http://www.themotherco.com/2011/06/raising-a-boy-in-pink/)

One Thursday morning, my four-year-old son announced, "I'm going to wear a dress to school today."

I froze. I shouldn't have been entirely surprised, given Sam's history on the pink side of the dress-up box, but this was different.

The previous weekend, Sam and I visited his grandma in Malibu, where we wandered into a high-end children's boutique. Sam had eyed a pink, frilly sundress. "Can I have it?"