For starter, the school mandates the family to decide on one unambiguous gender for Claude. The things the school demands? That’s a whole different thing. Letting Claude wear his dresses turns out to be the easiest thing. It’s not so much that she won’t accept a daughter who used to be her son, but how would other people react? He throws tantrums, which is very unlike his usual self. Rosie tries to convince him that he should change for school, and he still can wear the dress at home. So Rosie tries the easy way first, she tells Claude to change. It’s something that you take time to think about. This is not the kind of things that you decide during rush hours like this. He seems sure of his wish, but Rosie is baffled.

He says that he wants to go to school in it. That morning, Claude shows up wearing something unmistakably a girl dress. But when her son finally presents himself, that’s when Rosie sees it. Something is happening upstairs, which at this second, Rosie’s still unaware what it is. But it’s still annoying, that he still hasn’t come downstairs even after Rosie’s repeatedly called him for some time now. After all, he’s Rosie’s bright, sweet and precocious little son. Claude is upstairs, and Rosie’s not sure what’s taking him so long to get ready.

That morning, Rosie is busy trying to get her kids ready for school. The event happens in one of them when Claude, Rosie’s youngest, is in kindergarten. Even without any incident, they’re hectic and messy. When you have five sons, mornings before schools are never easy. The whole changeover process is surprising and not at the same time.

This is how it always is review