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It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons
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  • Paperback
  • Oct.21.2005
  • 9781580051453

Jacquelyn gives an overview of the book:

Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan   About the Anthology It's A Boy, is a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores what it's like to mother sons and how that experience may be different, but no less satisfying, than mothering girls.   Jackie's Essay: "The Day He Was Taller" On the day of a friend's bar mitzvah party, I found myself buying the first formal suit for my eldest son. When I called him down, he was so handsome I stood on my tiptoes to kiss him. Stood on my tiptoes? My whole world changed.
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Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan

 

About the Anthology

It's A Boy, is a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores what it's like to mother sons and how that experience may be different, but no less satisfying, than mothering girls.

 

Jackie's Essay: "The Day He Was Taller"

On the day of a friend's bar mitzvah party, I found myself buying the first formal suit for my eldest son. When I called him down, he was so handsome I stood on my tiptoes to kiss him. Stood on my tiptoes? My whole world changed.

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About Jacquelyn

Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago, the daughter of plumber and a mother who brought her putty from her part-time job at the hardware store. Of Canadian, Czech, and American Indian descent (a member of the Lac du Flambeau Cree Chippewa tribe) she is the first person...

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