It happens to all women. Married, single -sometimes the transition can take years, for others it literally happens overnight, but when it hits you, it hits you! You look in the mirror, you proclaim Because I said so and BAM youre your mother. I didnt realize it at first, the evidence was there; the smell of bleach lingering in the air, the old shirts that are now dust rags, lowering the heat in the middle of winter and telling my husband to suck it up and put on a sweater.

As I caught up on the daily news stories involving the Anthony Weiners indiscretions, Senator Edwards mess, the ridiculous Jesse James and the Arnold Schwarzenegger infidelities, I began to wonder about their parents – because as sure as some rowdy frat boy doing a tequila shooter in Cancun, we know these parents didnt raise their children with the thought of I cant wait till the day my son texts his penis to a 24-year-old college student or I wonder when little Susie is going flash her bits to the world, that will be really special.”

Ive read countless blog posts, articles, arguments and have thrown myself into several face-to-face and twitter discussions regarding the latest parenting controversy genderless parenting. When it first came up, I thought what the hell is that? And when I found out that its when parents decide not to put any emphasis on what gender their child is, like parents Kathy Witterick and David Stocker who are raising their third child genderless, I was confused.

When the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother hit the bookshelves the controversy lit up the skies as if it was July 4th.

My son Richie is a 7-year-old animal fanatic. It doesnt matter if it’s a snail, a great white, or even a squirrel. He loves animals and has absorbed ridiculous amount of information about them to the point where if we step outside we cant walk two feet without him pointing out a Great Eastern Humming Bird that is indigenous to the Eastern United States because of its yellow beak and mating calls with more confidence than Bill Clinton spewing I did not have sexual relations with that woman.