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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an alternative perspective- my husband is the father of 4 girls and he often uses the hashtag #girldad when captioning pictures of things he never imagined he would be doing like posing for a picture with Elsa because our daughter was too shy or letting our youngest put nail polish on him. He is relishing the experience and loves it. I don’t think anyone views him as being defensive or jealous? [/quote]

That’s because he’s not using it to excuse bad behavior.[/quote]

I think attitudes like this are the reason for the need for “boy moms.”  Some people just seem to interpret everything boys do as “bad.”  [/quote]

Not at all. My girls play with the boys down the street all. the. time. Seventy percent of the time, things are great; 10 percent are hiccups they figure out on their own; 10% is me refereeing if my girls are out of line; and 10% is the boys hitting or name-calling, and the other mom excusing her ALL BOYS.

Bad behavior is bad behavior and needs to be addressed, full stop. If you excuse it because #BOYS, you suck.

And I have friends whose kids are boys who don't excuse or #ALLBOY it, and I appreciate that they address their kids' behavior.[/quote]

I disagree that bad behavior is bad behavior.

At my son's 1st school bad behavior was climbing trees, wrestling on the playground, hitting each other with sticks, getting in the pond, trash talk, throwing snowballs.

We moved him to an all boys school and none of those behaviors were bad behaviors. Hitting  and name calling is not always bad behavior.[/quote]

Sorry that school sucked. But that doesn't make the boys down the street pushing my 5yo and pulling my 3yo's hair OK. That is bad behavior. My girls are right there climbing trees and knocking around on the trampoline with the boys. But sometimes things get out of hand. When my 3yo grabs a toy out of a boy's hands, I am on it and I address the behavior. I don't want to hear how #ALLBOY that same kid is when he knocks a container of sidewalk chalk out of her hands.[/quote]

And I let them work it out. You don't have to police every little misstep.[/quote]

Right. Work on your reading comprehension. As I said, 70% of the time is fine; 10% is hiccups they work out on our own; 10% is my girls misbehaving and me needing to step in; and 10% is the other mom ignoring bad behavior BECAUSE BOYS.

I don't police "every little misstep." But when a 3yo and a 3.5yo (girl and boy, respectively) are involved, stuff happens.[/quote]

See this is why moms of boys can't deal with moms of girls.

You need to seriously learn to relax.[/quote]

So you don't understand basic percentages and logic. Got it.[/quote]

And you still don't get your being a drama queen.[/quote]

And you still don't understand grammar.  [/quote]

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