thehonestpuck 's review for:

Gender Neutral Parenting: Raising Kids with the Freedom to Be Themselves by Paige Lucas-Stannard

4.0

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This is an excellent little book for those looking into gender-neutral parenting for the first time. Maybe you're sick of seeing children's clothing, toy, and bookstores divided into two distinct categories. Maybe you just want to be a little more measured in your approach. Lucas-Stannard walks us through the reasons for choosing to parent in more neutral ways, to support kids in both normative and gender non-conforming behaviour, so long as that behaviour is their own. I gave the book to my sister shortly after she had her child and although she snarked at the bits relating to biology (because she is a Biology teacher in high school), she said she liked it overall. My one caveat about this book is that it clearly started out as a series of blog posts, so there are issues (such as grey-scale pictures in the book being referred to by colour) where the content hasn't been translated well from one format to the other.