I’m a boymom. These are 5 things I teach my sons about being a man

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a mother in Fairfax County, Virginia, an author, and the chapter leader of Independent Women’s Network’s virtual chapter on Effective Engagement with K-12 Schools. This piece originally appeared in Fox News.

Without fear of cancelation or professional retribution, and in the wake of the left’s attempts to shame masculinity, it’s time to have a national conversation about what it means to be a man.

In our recent collective acknowledgment of biological reality and general return to common sense, we overwhelmingly agree that men should not win the Women of the Year award, enter women’s facilities, play women’s sports, or place in women’s beauty pageants. And in case anyone ever had a doubt, men cannot menstruate or become pregnant. What men cannot and should not do is abundantly clear, which begs the question, what should they do? Here’s what I tell my three sons:

1. Do the right thing 

In May 2024, we watched the media coverage as young men from Pi Kappa Phi protected the American flag at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when lunatics tried to desecrate it. During those moments, I explained to my sons that those were real men who were protecting the flag, representing the principles that their father, uncle, grandfather, and great-grandfathers fought to uphold. Masculine men do the right thing, including making sacrifices for their country, even when doing so is unpopular and potentially dangerous.

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