Ahmed Shams Alola Magarba Shams Alola Magarba থেকে Thoramangalam, Tamil Nadu, India
The first essays are mothers who really wanted girls or wanted their boys to be less boy-like (or more boy-like). Not much about the raising of sons but more about how their expectations of their children were not met. The later essays are about boys turning into teenagers which I'm not ready to face yet. I only read the first one, realizing I'd read later essays by same author and know her son-in-transition is now dead after falling in with the wrong crowd and developing a drug problem. Too sad to think about where kids may end up. I think I like my clueless parenting where I'm not sure what will happen next but it's all an adventure.