#boymom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Girls are not born mean girls or drama queens, it is learned.

It is learned by women on this thread.

It is unique when you only have boys because you never have to be forced to deal with the mom's of girls at your school and it is glorious.

Did you lose your way trying to get to BabyCenter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it is different and no we can't explain it to you.

It not something all mom's of boys understand just very active boys.

Lolol. #specialactiveboymom

Oh please #boymom, come spend a day with my DD.

At 20mo, she jumped off the third step, off the couch, and did a whole bunch of other acrobatic feats before 8am. I don’t stop her unless I know it’s unsafe or she can’t do it. All activities were with me two steps behind because I know she’s “busy”.

She then went and killed her “gymnastics” class, including jumping off a r gulag height beam.

I guess she didn’t play with a penis she doesn’t have, so there’s that.

NP. Why are you so mean? Calm down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it is different and no we can't explain it to you.

It not something all mom's of boys understand just very active boys.

Lolol. #specialactiveboymom

LOL we don't want to be your friend, sorry that bothers you.

Haha oh trust me, it moooost definitely does not

Good because your drama is exhausting. Stay away from us mom's of boys.

Do you mean “moms of boys”? Brush up on plural vs. possessive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it is different and no we can't explain it to you.

It not something all mom's of boys understand just very active boys.

Lolol. #specialactiveboymom

Oh please #boymom, come spend a day with my DD.

At 20mo, she jumped off the third step, off the couch, and did a whole bunch of other acrobatic feats before 8am. I don’t stop her unless I know it’s unsafe or she can’t do it. All activities were with me two steps behind because I know she’s “busy”.

She then went and killed her “gymnastics” class, including jumping off a r gulag height beam.

I guess she didn’t play with a penis she doesn’t have, so there’s that.

NP. Why are you so mean? Calm down.

DP, but I'd suggested reading the posts of the person she's responding to. PP is not being mean, she's just responding logically. PP I have a calm introverted boy and a crazy fearless daughter; I hear you!

[Anonymous]

Are these #boymoms mostly SAHMs? I have some friends with three boys (and some with three girls), but they all work full-time, and I've never seen any of them label themselves that way.

I wonder if these women who do so are so wrapped up in their role as a parent that their whole identity gets wrapped around having boys, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are these #boymoms mostly SAHMs? I have some friends with three boys (and some with three girls), but they all work full-time, and I've never seen any of them label themselves that way.

I wonder if these women who do so are so wrapped up in their role as a parent that their whole identity gets wrapped around having boys, etc.

Ok. I am a working mom, but if you are raising three children, being a parent ought to be a pretty big part of your identity.

I actually think it’s more parents who are really big into social media though, rather than sahm vs wohm. There are probably 8 women doing this, but they each have 1000 “friends.”

[Anonymous]

I have a friend with a son and a daughter who uses #boymom whenever she posts anything having to do with her son. It's strange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it is different and no we can't explain it to you.

It not something all mom's of boys understand just very active boys.

Lolol. #specialactiveboymom

Oh please #boymom, come spend a day with my DD.

At 20mo, she jumped off the third step, off the couch, and did a whole bunch of other acrobatic feats before 8am. I don’t stop her unless I know it’s unsafe or she can’t do it. All activities were with me two steps behind because I know she’s “busy”.

She then went and killed her “gymnastics” class, including jumping off a r gulag height beam.

I guess she didn’t play with a penis she doesn’t have, so there’s that.

She is one of the rare girls that could hang with our play group.

We don't need tattle tales because a boy knocked you down. It happens, get up and tackle him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these #boymoms mostly SAHMs? I have some friends with three boys (and some with three girls), but they all work full-time, and I've never seen any of them label themselves that way.

I wonder if these women who do so are so wrapped up in their role as a parent that their whole identity gets wrapped around having boys, etc.

Ok. I am a working mom, but if you are raising three children, being a parent ought to be a pretty big part of your identity.

I actually think it’s more parents who are really big into social media though, rather than sahm vs wohm. There are probably 8 women doing this, but they each have 1000 “friends.”

PP here. You might be right re: heavy users of social media (although I'd imagine SAHMs are more likely to be heavy users of social media, although for sure there are some WOHMs who are heavy users too).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it is different and no we can't explain it to you.

It not something all mom's of boys understand just very active boys.

Lolol. #specialactiveboymom

LOL we don't want to be your friend, sorry that bothers you.

Haha oh trust me, it moooost definitely does not

Good because your drama is exhausting. Stay away from us mom's of boys.

Do you mean “moms of boys”? Brush up on plural vs. possessive.

Such a mom of girls thing to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it is different and no we can't explain it to you.

It not something all mom's of boys understand just very active boys.

Lolol. #specialactiveboymom

Oh please #boymom, come spend a day with my DD.

At 20mo, she jumped off the third step, off the couch, and did a whole bunch of other acrobatic feats before 8am. I don’t stop her unless I know it’s unsafe or she can’t do it. All activities were with me two steps behind because I know she’s “busy”.

She then went and killed her “gymnastics” class, including jumping off a r gulag height beam.

I guess she didn’t play with a penis she doesn’t have, so there’s that.

Yes! This is the difference between boys and girls. My 3 y/o daughter will jump off the couch. At 3y/o my boys would get their little brother to lay on the floor so they can jump over him. Then they will get a knife from the kitchen to tear open the couch and see what it’s made of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girls are not born mean girls or drama queens, it is learned.

It is learned by women on this thread.

It is unique when you only have boys because you never have to be forced to deal with the mom's of girls at your school and it is glorious.

Did you lose your way trying to get to BabyCenter?

Truth hurts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girls are not born mean girls or drama queens, it is learned.

It is learned by women on this thread.

It is unique when you only have boys because you never have to be forced to deal with the mom's of girls at your school and it is glorious.

Your sons are only friends with boys?

Huh. How very odd.

+1 that's not normal. You should be concerned if that's the case

Come on, Sock Puppet. Certainly in elementary school and middle school, many -- not all! -- girls' friend groups are *mostly* girls, and many - but not all! -- boys' friend groups are *mostly* boys. My sister raised two girls and I raised two boys. Our kids' social lives *mostly* revolved around friends of their own gender. They weren't doing co-ed sports teams or co-ed slumber parties for example. So my sister was dealing with *mostly* moms of girls and I was dealing with *mostly* moms of boys. And we frequently compared notes about the level of involvement of the moms in the various little social spats that the girls would get wrapped up in. It seems more frequently the case that the moms are more invested in competing through the daughters, just as the dads sometimes compete through their sons. Not one is using words like only, all, every, and always -- but it comes up often enough to be observable by some of us on both sides of the equation as a "thing."

I just don't see why anyone cares about #boymom. Hashtags are silly, sure. But what difference does it make if some people are looking to bond over a shared experience? Why does this have to be attributed to jealousy or over-compensating? Couldn't it just be funny and fun for them, and none of your concern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girls are not born mean girls or drama queens, it is learned.

It is learned by women on this thread.

It is unique when you only have boys because you never have to be forced to deal with the mom's of girls at your school and it is glorious.

Your sons are only friends with boys?

Huh. How very odd.

No. I'm only friend with moms with boys and Tom boys and the very rare non-drama mom of girls.

He had weeded out the mean girls and the drama queens as well and found a few very good friends that are girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these #boymoms mostly SAHMs? I have some friends with three boys (and some with three girls), but they all work full-time, and I've never seen any of them label themselves that way.

I wonder if these women who do so are so wrapped up in their role as a parent that their whole identity gets wrapped around having boys, etc.

Ok. I am a working mom, but if you are raising three children, being a parent ought to be a pretty big part of your identity.

I actually think it’s more parents who are really big into social media though, rather than sahm vs wohm. There are probably 8 women doing this, but they each have 1000 “friends.”

This. Absolutely this.