What I Wrote About My Boys Was Unfair and My Son Called Me Out

“It’s kind of sexist, though. Right?” my son says to me.

It is not a question, but a statement.

“It was meant to be funny,” I reply.

“It makes us look like idiots, like stereotypes of who we are,” he says.

“It’s tongue in cheek, you know? Just a joke,” I say.

“I guess,” he replies. “Unless it is about you.”

He is not really mad, but not really happy either. He is also not alone.

My recently published Grown and Flown essay pokes fun at life with my three sons, comparing our days and nights to...