Book Review: Raising My Rainbow by Lori Duron

Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son by Lori Duron
Publisher: Broadway Books
Release Date: September 3, 2013
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Lori Doron is the blogger behind raisingmyrainbow.com. It’s a blog about parenting her son C.J. and that’s what this book is about too. C.J. is considered gender nonconforming because he prefers to play with toys typically for girls and wear feminine clothing. Not surprisingly, most of his friends are girls.

I was impressed with how Lori’s incredible honesty. She’s not afraid to admit the mistakes she’s made along the way and not afraid to confess how difficult it can be raising C.J. She cops to the fear and insecurity she sometimes feels. At the same time, she describes the joy it is to parent C.J. He sounds like a really neat kid.

She also discusses C.J.’s older brother Chase and how C.J. being gender nonconforming affects his life. Chase’s life at school is definitely different and harder than it would be if C.J. was gender conforming but Lori and her husband are helping him through it wonderfully.

This book was informative and fun to read. Lori seems like a friendly and funny person and her story is one that everyone should read.

(I received this book courtesy of Amazon Vine)