There is this debate going on between parents on boys and their emotions. One parent is okay with crying; the other thinks it is okay. When a parent of anyone I know, pass or talk to says “stop crying, boys don’t cry” to a young child it curdles my stomach. They have this false idea that boys should run out of the gate with a high emotional IQ. At 16 I heard the statement said to a 4-year-old, it was the first time I had ever heard someone I knew say that. Growing up my mother and grandmother never tod my brother he could not cry based off of his gender. When I heard it the first time, I jumpe ..read more