This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Rachel Martin.

When Sonora Jock gave birth to a boy, she was certain of one thing.

She wanted to raise him as a feminist.

She was living in India at the time, working as a journalist.

She moved to Singapore and eventually Seattle.

There was a divorce along the way.

And Jock found herself a single mom.

She's got a new book out about that experience.

It's a memoir, but it also has practical to-do lists

about how to tackle some of the hardest conversations with her son.

It's also a love letter, not just a mom's, but to the next generation of men.

This conversation first ran on NPR's Morning Edition.

I asked Sonora Jock what it means to have a feminist son.

It means having a boy who believes in the full humanity of women and girls around him

who knows how to trust his mother's voice, her anger, her love,

and then extend that to other women around him.

And also feminism for boys in particular is about, you know,

things like feeling their whole spectrum of human emotion, right?

Feeling sad, being able to cry, being able to have that feminine side.

And then also as they grow to recognize that they can be led by women,

that they believe women's stories.

Do you believe that you are at the center of everything or that you can sometimes follow

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