Are “boy moms” really not teaching their sons any life skills?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does a 20yr old boy need to make a lot of dr appointments? It’s probably not his insurance and he is unlikely to have chronic health issues.

Wait, are you saying that the insured should make the appointments for everyone on the plan?? As the insured for a family, I'm not on board with that, and neither are health privacy laws.

My 19 year old daughter makes her own dentist appts twice a year, and her own GYN and GP as needed. Why should I do it? I don't know her schedule and availability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My "girl mom" and DH's "boy mom" didn't teach me any of these skills and they were Silent Gen sahms. I learned everything myself once I went away to college. It's not hard especially since Google and Youtube provide all the instructions you need.

How old are you? You must have had SUPER old Silent parents because we Xers didn’t have Google & YouTube in college.

We had dial up aol in college.

[Anonymous]

Yes, this is a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What you described isn’t how my son, any of his male friends, or my daughter’s boyfriend behave.

Perhaps it is the company your daughter keeps?

Sounds like it. You may want to have a talk with her to up her standards! Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Hey troll, you didn't have enough of yesterday's thread?


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1325873.page

Stop it with the boy bashing already. I don't know if you've noticed, but men tend to out-earn women at a certain point in life.

Maybe don't criticize too much?

Men out earned women because companies got away with it. Men also would refuse to stay home with their children demanding their wives take the hit on their careers and earning power. When women still worked after having children, many men would still refuse to do 1/2 of the daycare pickups which effected the woman who had to pick up the kid “Yeah, but I got a meeting again honey” “Well I have to stay late to finish this project (after a 2 hour lunch with buddies)” Then the woman gets much more than 1/2 the household chores, and 1/2 the childcare at home leading to exhausted wives.

This is why the younger generation of women should be extremely cautious having children and getting married.

I agree that the mom saying that to her son’s girlfriend is a bit of a red flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does a 20yr old boy need to make a lot of dr appointments? It’s probably not his insurance and he is unlikely to have chronic health issues.

Wait, are you saying that the insured should make the appointments for everyone on the plan?? As the insured for a family, I'm not on board with that, and neither are health privacy laws.

My 19 year old daughter makes her own dentist appts twice a year, and her own GYN and GP as needed. Why should I do it? I don't know her schedule and availability.

He could be on his own insurance or have none. Why does a healthy 19yr old need a GP? Boys don't need to do any of that beyond a dentist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boys seem to thrive at household/life tasks. Where they struggle is executive functioning as it pertains to school, scheduling, assignments, forms, deadlines, and juggling multiple demands - doctors, teaches, applications, scholarships etc. it’s a lot!! So no blame.

Yet it's girls whining about "adulting" and wanting someone to take care of them.