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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get the term in the sense of why does everything needs to be branded with a catch phrase these days?  It’s not enough to be a mom and to say “I have two boys.”  Everything  had to be a hashtagable phrase that can be printed on moms beach trucker hat or her wine-o-clock glasses.

I guess I don’t understand how being a boy mom is different from being a mom????[/quote]

Exactly.  It's a dumb term and shouldn't be perpetuated.  It IS rather like "wine-o-clock" in its tackiness.

I am from a girl-heavy family in my generation.  And a family with a matriarchal setup full of women educators and specialists in early childhood and elementary ed.  But all of those in my generation who have kids have coincidentally had boys.

I see how boys are a poor fit for how today's elementary schools are structured.  But I think it's still workable and boys can still succeed.  People just need to be less rigid at times.  More recess, and fewer navel-gazing english assignments would go far.  Also, my boys seem less interested in narrative play and educational toys than the girls in my family were.  But that's not critical to my experience of parenting.

The boymom term opens mothers to more stereotyping and disdain.  For example, on DCUM, people have pretty much said that boymoms excuse male misbehavior and rape culture.  Nobody needs this dubious distinction of being a #boymom.
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