There are women who fly the “boy mom” flag — they proudly include it on their resumes, cite it regularly, and use it to explain who they are and what their lives are like. To them, #boymom is a hashtag that separates them from other parents.
TikTok creator and mom Holli Grasmeyer is going viral for explaining that she was once a proud boy mom, but now she has a new hashtag: Recovering Boy mom.
“I used to use the hashtag boy mom,” she begins her video. “I’m a boy mom. I have a shirt that says ‘boy mom.’ I mean I only have sons. I didn’t mean anything weird, you guys made things weird. Or maybe this has always been weird – let’s all call our mothers-in-law and find out.
When did the big change happen? Suddenly there were several stepdaughters in her family.
“Then I met my husband, and he’s a girl dad. Which just means he only has daughters. There’s nothing weird about that,” she continued. “So we started a family and now I have two sons and two daughters. Deep down I had this idea: ‘Boys are wild, boys are wild. Boys are in WWE a lot. They’re chaotic, they’re wild. It’s wild, they’re crazy, but they never stop moving forward.
But it turns out that once you meet enough kids, you realize that gender stereotypes are just that: stereotypes.
“Then I met my daughters and I was like, ‘Oh. They’re just kids. Boys are kids, girls are kids. Some kids are cool and sit down and paint for an hour. That’s cool. I don’t know those kids. ,” she joked.
As it turns out, her daughters have also competed in WWE, among other things.
“My daughter’s name is Sienna and her nickname in WWE is John Sienna. I’m very proud of that. They’re crazy because they’re crazy.
Well said.
The video has been viewed 4.6 million times and received nearly 500,000 likes, and parents everywhere agree with her conclusion: kids will be kids.
“My son is very, very cold,” one parent shared to many likers. “My daughter is very, very uncool😂”
“They are all crazy 😝😂,” another added.
“Yeah, thank you,” another mom commented. “It’s so painful to see ‘Only a boy’s mom will understand how crazy this is,’ and it’s just a toddler.”
“Finally someone said it,” another woman wrote. “Growing up with all sisters, people often comment on how wonderful it must have been, but we were also pretty wild.”
There you go! Girls can be disruptive with the best of people, boys can be quiet and sensitive. Turns out, it’s all about their personality, not their gender.
