“Night” did not last more than a few minutes as a costume. My son took it off minutes before the school party, when he saw what all the other kids were wearing, and felt acutely uncomfortable. This almost ruined the party for him, but he rallied, and I had him look around to see if […]
Archive for the ‘Boys’ Category
Melancholia Halloweenia – an Update (and, happily, a retraction)
Posted in Boys, Growing up, Idiosyncracies, Parenting on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hourglass
Posted in Aging, Boys, Friendship, Natural World, Parenting on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” -Ed Prentiss, 1965, Days of Our Lives Friday was Professional Development day at my son’s school, meaning the entire public school population was turned loose upon the city. Working and nonworking parents alike had their little ones back for a day. Middle […]
Shadow Boxing
Posted in Boys, Emotions/Inner World, Growing up, The Genders on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I grew up doing things like a girl. I threw like a girl, ran like a girl, cried like a girl, and in my teenage years I slammed doors, waited by the phone, and pined after unrequited crushes – just like a girl.
Double Digits
Posted in Boys, Children, Growing up, Mothers, Parenting, Sons on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My son is now 10, and inching closer to his “tweens” – a word that didn’t exist to describe my own years between childhood and adolescence. Does that mean I didn’t experience my own tweens or simply that no one recognized the unique development conflicts in the years of burgeoning independence and dependency? If […]
Little Lancelot
Posted in Boys, Emotions/Inner World, Men, Parenting, Sons, Young Love on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How, oh how, to grow a boy?