Overall great essays, but some that are very hard to read

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	• It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons Seal Press, 2005 - 200 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I like it!

The stories are written by mothers of different ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. It's strange to realize that mothers all over the country feel the same way about having sons. Makes me LOVE being a mother of a boy!

Overall great essays, but some that are very hard to read

Overall, the stories are touching and are exactly what I was hoping for when I ordered this book. However, for those of you are sensitive, be careful - there are some hard essays to read in there about loss and danger to the mother - which being pregnant right now, I found difficult.

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Absolutely Wonderful. Insightful

Interesting the only negative review was from a male. I have a 14 mo. old son and these writers are spot on about so much! I feel like they are my feminist friends. Great tough insights, wonderful laughs too.

Good work.

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Sentimental and Real

Great Book. A must-have. Many of the essays made me cry, which is OK because I had it in my car where I would read it in a parking lot after my son would fall asleep in the car. Just my boy and me, in silence, and I could relate to all the stories.
Another book which is equally good but will have you laughing instead of crying is "The House of Testosterone". That's in my car now. ;-)

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The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked ? aside from "When are you due?" ? has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and total strangers alike: "Boys are wonderful," "Boys are so much better than girls," "Boys love their mothers differently than girls." This constant refrain led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience.

The result is It's A Boy, 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.

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