For Lori Duron, parenting her younger son C.J. is etched in time as B.B. and A.B. - before Barbie and after Barbie.
The 6½-year-old discovered the doll at the back of his mother’s closet about four years ago, and she’s barely left his clutches since.
In a new book "Raising My Rainbow," the Orange County, Calif., mom describes C.J. as - in a word - fabulous as he lives life largely in pink, playing with girl toys, dressing in girl clothes and worshipping the Disney princesses.
If you want more words, there’s "gender nonconforming, gender creative, gender fluid, gender independent, gender variant, has gender identity disorder, or whatever you prefer to call it."
A world of nagging fear and anxiety about raising a boy who wants to be treated like a girl prompted Duron to begin an anonymous blog, RaisingMyRainbow.com, documenting their family’s adventures. More than a million readers later, the book from Broadway Books is her humorous coming out.
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