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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look people-don’t be stupid. #boymom is used to keep our sanity in a world where moms of boys deal with constant pressure to make their boys “behave”, “reign it in”, or whatever.  Things like personal hygiene, table manners, indoor voices, are just not as easy to teach to boys as it is to the *majority* of little girls, of course there are exceptions. But you just don’t need to exercise little girls like you need little boys.

I have mom friends with just boys and we literally text each other things like, “hey-I’m heading to the park to run the boys, want to join?”

“RUN the boys”

#boymom

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Here's why it is so hard to relate to a #BOYMOM versus a mom of boys.

You cannot offer any form of commisseration, identification, sympathy/empathy, or relating to them without them completely dismissing you and trying to diminish you because YOU JUST CAN'T because you're a mother to girls. So you can't know.

So even if your girl is hoarse from shouting, a skinned knee from tree-climbing, covered in dirt and holding up a random animal tooth for inspection, as my oldest girl was today, you just. can't. possibly. because #BOYMOM.

So go ahead, #boymom. I'll stop trying to connect with you or relate to you, or encouraging my kids to play with yours. And then I'll be a snobby, standoffish #girlmom, and you'll continue to be so "unseen."[/quote]

This is so mental. [/quote]

Completely.  She’s nuts![/quote]

Well done, ladies. "I don't agree with someone, and can't see her perspective, so she's CRAZY!" No mysoginistic man could have played it any better. Very mature. Why post counter-points and ask questions when you can simply go from discussion to "She Crazy"? [/quote]

I can see both sides of the #boymom and other side discussion. But the PP is mental. [/quote]

How is she mental? Or crazy or whatever? She’s highlighting a difference that is present in raising boys vs girls. I love the idea that there aren’t gender norms too, I bought my boys dolls and play kitchens, and you know what? They just wanted to push the trucks around.

For some reason moms of girls have a really hard time conceding that raising boys is different. 
Obviously there’s something moms of boys perceive as different or harder, otherwise #boymom wouldn’t exist.

I don’t think it’s because moms of boys are jealous and dying for a girl. That’s a crazy leap of logic! I’d even call it “mental”. “My friend is doing IVF for a girl, so the boymoms out there need this hashtag?” What?! Obviously it’s because moms of boys feel the need to be acknowledged in some way!

I will also share this: my 10 year old hosted a playdate today with 3 boys and 2 girls. I kicked them outside because it was so nice. Girls climbed trees, rode the zip line, played with the dog. Boys did the same. Boys also threw pine cones and huge piles of dried leaves at each other, raced around with sticks playing war, and finally settled down to play “obstacle broom ball”. Girls watched from
the treehouse, occasionally saying “pathetic” and “gross” about their rough play.

That attitude & judgement about rowdy boy play comes from somewhere...probably their mothers.

So maybe the #boymom phenomena is in response to the crap and judgement put out there by society.

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You are so judgemental it’s unreal. [/quote]

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