Tender is the new strong for boys

Libby-Jane Charleston
3 min readNov 1, 2020

How to raise “tender boys” in this new, tough world.

Libby-Jane’s sons at Bondi Beach

I love the idea that girls and women are as strong, vibrant and powerful as any male. Yet as the mother of three young boys, the Girl Power push that has been around for quite a while allows me to ponder the role of gender and our perceptions of strength and beauty.

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Libby-Jane Charleston

Journalist, ex-ABC TV, HuffPost AU Assoc Editor, ABC TV, author, poet, mother of 3 boys, cancer Survivor, history lover