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In the ever-evolving social media trends, the emergence of the “Boy Moms” movement on TikTok has been both heartwarming and transformative. Challenging traditional gender roles and societal norms, this trend empowers mothers to teach their sons essential life skills such as cooking and cleaning. They do not want their sons to expect this from their future wives or girlfriends. “Boy Moms” are paving the way for a generation that values partnership and collaboration. However, some mothers have taken this to heart, saying their intentions do not seem in everyone’s best interest. A debate has sparked between the parents of the internet.
In the old days, women were expected to manage the household while their husbands worked. This meant waking up early to prepare the kids for school, packing lunches, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, and cooking every meal. It became a chore, as opposed to collaborative living. However, as the modern world progresses, we see more people sharing these tasks. This is a huge help as both wives and husbands are working full-time.
A new trend has risen from TikTok. It is called the Boy Moms trend, which parallels the “Girl dads” trend. It all started when one TikTok user, Laura Elizabeth Graham (@lauraelizabethgraham), posted a video of her teaching her son various chores around the house. In this particular video, she was teaching him to cook. The text overlay on the clio reads, “Making sure my son can cook so he’s not impressed by your daughter’s [Stouffer’s] lasagna.”
What do you all think of this?
I think it's completely ridiculous that they expect praise and upvotes for doing the bare minimum you can expect from a parent: to raise their child to be a functional adult. That's not special. That's not being a "boy mom". That's normal parenting.
Nobody would go "Whaaaat? You taught your child how to walk and eat with a spoon so their future spouse doesn't have to carry them everywhere and feed them? How progressive! Wow!"🙄
To me it's the same as dads being praised for every tiny, normal thing they do while looking after their own children, while the same thing is seen as natural and never even mentioned when a mother does it.
good thing they're teaching their sons to cook because hopefully no woman will ever come near them.
But where are the dads? Why aren't the dads teaching by example and taking on a fair share of the child raising?
'...so he's not impressed by your daughter's lasagne.' Bitch, he fucking should be. My cooking is out of this world and your son should be grateful to be in receipt of the gift that is my culinary excellence.
Also, why are you so worried about whether he's impressed by my cooking? Can't stand the (totally non-existent on my part) competition? Urgh, I can't with these boymom pickmes and their pampered manbaby sons.
Every mom has been a "boy mom" since patriarchy was invented. It's like saying "rich government official"