My eldest is almost 10, and the more he grows up, the more I feel the need to talk to him appropriately about love (outside of the maternal version of it), as well as sex, consent and what it means to be a decent man.
But my views of masculinity had been fairly skewed, or widely superficial. Therefore, it only felt right to dig into other resources than my own experiences. In this blog post, I chose to summarize concrete (parenting) actions points from author and journalist Peggy Orenstein.