I've only ever said breasts, and when my family and I faced a recent health scare I was happier than ever that they remained body positive.
That’s why, even when my boys were babies, I never used slang terms for any body part, especially my breasts. My twins were three when my third son was born. As I nursed him, they were naturally curious about what I was doing, so I showed them and talked them through it. “This is mommy’s breast and milk comes out of it for your brother,” I explained.
But my motivation for teaching my kids the proper words for body parts went well beyond keeping them out of the principal’s office. I wanted my boys to become men who. In all my parenting, raising men that I, and the rest of society, want to be around has always been my primary goal. I wanted my boys to grow up respecting women in every way including how they refer to their bodies. I remember my single days and guys who used those terms were an instant turn off to me and many other women.
Raising sons in the era of the #MeToo movement also hits home the importance of the messages and language we use with and around our boys. I watched the Kavanaugh hearings , with my three teenaged sons. They heard the language being used and read the news regularly. We
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