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[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]

I feel you.  I was down at the school the other day because my fourth grader got into trouble for not coloring his math project.  He doesn’t like to color.  It wasn’t art class.  Isn’t there any other way to teach fourth grade math?  I am going to stand up for his right to not have to color everything with crayons anymore.  It was one thing in kindergarten, but he is 9 years old now.   [/quote]

We got "concern" from school when DS went through a phase of drawing WWII fighters and tanks.  
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