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Even without the deadly specter of anorexia, the skin-and-bones look, critics say, underlines the idea that thinness is a principal yardstick of a woman's worth.

Can we mothers of boys hope to raise thoughtful, supportive, caring helpmates for the female achievers of tomorrow? Or are they, at age 5, or at birth, already too far gone? Where did those guys come upon their obsession with wiggling and wheels and weapons, their passion for He-Man and hockey?

All you have to do with boys is feed them (a lot), wash their clothes (often) and go watch them (with your eyes shut) play soccer. Girls, on the other hand, often resist such simple ministrations, holding out for more emotional involvement. Boys pronounce. Girls dramatize.

As a rule, models are unfamiliar with what the word eating means to most people.

Perhaps, if we young mothers had started on day one, and had given our children unisex names, and our sons more options and our daughters more anger, we would find at fifth-birthday parties the boys being fastidious and the girls slinging guns. But is that what we really want?

All in fashion passes.

On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?