Full name: It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons

Author: Andrea J. Buchanan Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Parenting, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781580051453 1580051456

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. Similar books: Breeder by Ariel Gore Mother Shock by Andrea J. Buchanan Mamaphonic by Bee Lavender The Big Rumpus by Ayun Halliday The Idle Parent by Tom Hodgkinson Cleaning House by Kay Wills Wyma Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting by Noel Janis-Norton How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims The Hip Mama Survival Guide by Ariel Gore The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey Boys Should Be Boys by Meg Meeker Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman Hands Free Mama by Rachel Macy Stafford Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld Making Babies by Anne Enright Natural Hospital Birth by Cynthia Gabriel Age of Opportunity by Paul David Tripp Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson Don't Make Me Count to Three by Ginger Plowman