I am so sick of boy-mom sh*T

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please.. someone explain what a boy-mom is?

A mom who only has boys and is always surrounded by boys.

Pretty much once you have boys moms of girls dump you because your kids are too crazy and you find yourself with friends that are moms of boys.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I have two girls. My best friend has two boys. We spend tons of time together with all of our kids. Our friendship has not suffered one bit due to our childrens' genders.

Glad for you. But for me it has been different. Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls don't like. I know 2 girls that like it, one probably just tolerates it.

As our friends group evolves, the girls gravitated towards other activities... and eventually all was left was moms with just boys.

Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls aren’t encouraged or allowed to do.

FIFY

My DD wrestles, jumps, throws aballs in the creek, collects newts, and the like. So do her friends.

You know why girls don’t usually do these things? Because their mothers are putting them in Hanna Anderson matchy outfits, and running around them, fretting that they will become dirty or messy, or whatever. Because they have their own idea of what a girl mom is.

It’s so strange to me, all the talk about equality, when we start to separate what boys and girls should be st the age of birth.,

It's also that girls imitate their moms and boys imitate their dads more. I'm a very girly female but did get messy and sporty to show my daughters and my son, but I've noticed the girls followed what I did and my son tried to imitate my DH even as a baby. I can't play sports and so they didn't seem interested either. I'm trying to raise well rounded children, but it's hard when I wasn't raised that way. I'm at least making sure my daughters know how to play sports so they aren't left out of sports in Kindergarten. I remember being the only girl who didn't know how to hit a baseball in PE and I just had to sit in the dugout.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please.. someone explain what a boy-mom is?

A mom who only has boys and is always surrounded by boys.

Pretty much once you have boys moms of girls dump you because your kids are too crazy and you find yourself with friends that are moms of boys.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I have two girls. My best friend has two boys. We spend tons of time together with all of our kids. Our friendship has not suffered one bit due to our childrens' genders.

Glad for you. But for me it has been different. Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls don't like. I know 2 girls that like it, one probably just tolerates it.

As our friends group evolves, the girls gravitated towards other activities... and eventually all was left was moms with just boys.

Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls aren’t encouraged or allowed to do.

FIFY

My DD wrestles, jumps, throws aballs in the creek, collects newts, and the like. So do her friends.

You know why girls don’t usually do these things? Because their mothers are putting them in Hanna Anderson matchy outfits, and running around them, fretting that they will become dirty or messy, or whatever. Because they have their own idea of what a girl mom is.

It’s so strange to me, all the talk about equality, when we start to separate what boys and girls should be st the age of birth.,

Whatever the reason, I don't want somebody asking me if I'm really letting them to go into the creek and catch minnows and crayfish. Or I don't want somebody crying that they got splashed. and most moms of girls or girls just don't want to do the same things... a few do... but even those (while welcome) (sadly) want girlfriends and get stuck doing what their friends (friends moms) like, instead of what they like.

I have boys that like those things and I'm not going to tell them to "play nice" when there are a ton of kids that love to play the same way.

Girls welcome, complains not welcome.

[Anonymous]

It annoys me when Chip takes the boys to do demo and Joanne takes the girls to pick out decorations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah yes...
Have we reached the point in the thread where #boymoms complain about all the slutty Delilahs in their son’s home room.
Good stuff.
Make sure to write an op ed about leggings, ladies!

Ah yes...

girl drama has arrived.... going together = slutty...

#thankfultobeaboymom

It will hard, but try not to raise pigs. K, thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes...
Have we reached the point in the thread where #boymoms complain about all the slutty Delilahs in their son’s home room.
Good stuff.
Make sure to write an op ed about leggings, ladies!

Ah yes...

girl drama has arrived.... going together = slutty...

#thankfultobeaboymom

It will hard, but try not to raise pigs. K, thanks.

being more interested in playing sport than in dating in 6th grade is "not raising pigs"... btw.. you do the same. #equality

keep the drama to the minimum girl mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes...
Have we reached the point in the thread where #boymoms complain about all the slutty Delilahs in their son’s home room.
Good stuff.
Make sure to write an op ed about leggings, ladies!

Ah yes...

girl drama has arrived.... going together = slutty...

#thankfultobeaboymom

It will hard, but try not to raise pigs. K, thanks.

being more interested in playing sport than in dating in 6th grade is "not raising pigs"... btw.. you do the same. #equality

keep the drama to the minimum girl mom.

It’s just mom. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Where do you even experience this?

[Anonymous]

Jesus this thread is depressing. Wtf is wrong with you people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, I also haven’t seen this. What does it refer to? Just the advertising fact that your kids are boys or...what?

No, it's to show that you are really invested in being a mother to boys (with a strict and very stereotyped view of how boys are), that being a mother to boys is totally different from being a mother to girls, that it's just so special and fun and awesome and Instagram-worthy, and often to excuse your kid's bad behavior because he's "all boy."

It's this. It's annoying, because it tried to reinforce boy-stereotypes. It's time to move past this BS.

Yes. It's usually used to excuse bad behavior as "cool".

[Anonymous]

I have 2 boys ages 8 and 10 plus a toddler daughter. My boys only play with boys so all their chosen friends are boys.

We have family friends with girls and we also hang out with them. It isn’t their first preference but they still hang out.

[Anonymous]

Saw someone today wearing a Boy Mom hat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please.. someone explain what a boy-mom is?

A mom who only has boys and is always surrounded by boys.

Pretty much once you have boys moms of girls dump you because your kids are too crazy and you find yourself with friends that are moms of boys.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I have two girls. My best friend has two boys. We spend tons of time together with all of our kids. Our friendship has not suffered one bit due to our childrens' genders.

Glad for you. But for me it has been different. Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls don't like. I know 2 girls that like it, one probably just tolerates it.

As our friends group evolves, the girls gravitated towards other activities... and eventually all was left was moms with just boys.

Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls aren’t encouraged or allowed to do.

FIFY

My DD wrestles, jumps, throws aballs in the creek, collects newts, and the like. So do her friends.

You know why girls don’t usually do these things? Because their mothers are putting them in Hanna Anderson matchy outfits, and running around them, fretting that they will become dirty or messy, or whatever. Because they have their own idea of what a girl mom is.

It’s so strange to me, all the talk about equality, when we start to separate what boys and girls should be st the age of birth.,

It's also that girls imitate their moms and boys imitate their dads more. I'm a very girly female but did get messy and sporty to show my daughters and my son, but I've noticed the girls followed what I did and my son tried to imitate my DH even as a baby. I can't play sports and so they didn't seem interested either. I'm trying to raise well rounded children, but it's hard when I wasn't raised that way. I'm at least making sure my daughters know how to play sports so they aren't left out of sports in Kindergarten. I remember being the only girl who didn't know how to hit a baseball in PE and I just had to sit in the dugout.

My prissy daughters in their giant bows and matching HA are the first ones to dive into mud puddles, catch worms, wrestle, and start up games of baseball or kickball or whatever.

[Anonymous]

#boymom - less drama than girls, but harder to keep alive
#boymom - sometimes swearing helps
#boymom - sometimes we have to embrace the mess and turn it into a party
#boymom - band aids & booze
#boymom - surrounded by balls
#boymom - support wildlife, raise boys
#boymom - rough & tough, tractors & trucks, fish & bucks
#boymom - more than just fart jokes, there's also butt, booger, poop, pee...
#boymom - bugs, trucks, dinos
#boymom - trucks, superheroes, dinos
#boymom - dinos, nerf guns, legos
#boymom - pee, pee, everywhere there's pee
#boymom - messy house

So pretty much a mom. That's lazy and likes to make excuses.

[Anonymous]

Someone nailed it upthread.
the MLM mommies and boymoms have significant overlap. Kindred spirits.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still confused. The two explanations just above (at 8:36 and 8:45) are completely different. One says it's commentary about how frustrating it is to have boys and the other says it's commentary on how much "fun" it is.

NP

It's kind of a humblebrag -- ostensibly bemoaning something outside the norm while also reasserting your identity derived through your kids as part of a special kind of tribe.

Nailed it!