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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry, OP, but your system smacks of the kind of entrenched male favoritism.  If you're worried about "screen time", then to the extent your daughter doesn't watch the game, she should be able to watch an equivalent amount without your son or play ipad.  If you're worried about some kind of "family time" concept that the baseball game imparts, then, uh, how about picking a family time tv (or other activity) that isn't inherently likely to leave out your daughter?

Like it or not, boys and men are more inclined to be into watching and playing sports than girls and women. Whether ingrained from birth or something we are socialized to do, the average 6 year old girl doesn't give a crap about baseball, while it is likely a source of entertainment for the average 6 year old boy.  I'd say your husband is already reinforcing that, by making this a fun father-son activity that has become a source of conflict for your daughter. Even if boys are merely socialized to enjoy sports, it definitely has more value to them then girls. Boys go to school and talk to their friends about it. Girls don't. Men go to work and talk about it. Women don't do this much. People on here are going to think I'm nuts, but I would argue that your little shit experiment is basically an incubator version of when women grow up and get told that the (male) boss is taking out the top client to go golfing - and she and her (male) colleague are welcome to come. Oh, but the woman doesn't play golf? (which women are less likely to play well than men, because, well of the exact shit that OP and her husband are already enforcing on her kids). I guess just boss, dude colleague and client will go out instead.

I agree that sometimes shit isn't fair for kids, and parents get to enforce rules arbitrarily, but dont' enforce a rule arbitrarily that sucks for your daughter solely because she's a girl.

PS I know twenty of you are now going to jump in and say that you're a woman and you LOVE baseball and are AWESOME at golf.  Your anecdote is great. But let's talk averages and statistics and real life instead. [/quote]

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