Introducing Tom-mom!
I was always a tomboy. I loved my short hair and brother’s hand-me-downs. The swim team, outdoor adventures and family pets were my passions; the daring, strong-like-a-pirate Pipi Longstocking my...
View ArticleAre you a tom-mom?
Take our Quiz to see if you are a Tom~Mom When you take your kids to sports practice, you would rather a) sit and chat with other parents or b) squeeze in a workout ? How would you prefer to spend a...
View ArticleWinners Don’t Take All
My eyes rapidly scanned the list of nine-and-ten-year-old girls’ events for my daughter, Evelyn’s, name during a swim meet last winter. I wasn’t anxiously checking to see if she’d placed in the top ten...
View ArticleTomboys Get Bullied, Too
Evelyn choked back tears as she climbed into the car when I picked her up from school. After we’d cleared the parking lot, she broke down into full sobs, and blocks went by before she was able to tell...
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Tomboy Genesis
Most tomboys have a genesis story. Idolized big sisters or best friends were hardcore tomboys who carried slingshots everywhere or played on the boys’ peewee football team, and tomboys were spawned...
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Painful Tomboy Moments
Caster Semenya post-victory 2009 My tomboy game hit a rough patch the spring I was ten. During a trip to the drugstore to buy perfume for my mother’s birthday, a salesman thought I was a boy and teased...
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Famous Tomboys and Tom-moms
Tatum O'Neal in The Bad News Bears Until the arrival of the tom-mom, iconic tomboys have traditionally fallen into two camps: irrepressible, endearing children or adventuresome, childless women. Scout,...
View ArticleTomboys and their Clothes
Back-to-school shopping for my tomboy daughter followed its familiar pattern again this fall: Scour the girls’ section for anything not pink, purple or provocative. Fail. Give up. Go home and move her...
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