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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just say the dogs are boys.  That usually shuts them up.[/quote]

LOL, love it.  For some reason, this is a perfectly normal question to ask strangers. I remember when my mom was pregnant with the third, that people would yell out, "hope the next one is a boy", as she walked along with me and my sister.  I think there is this idea that you have one of each so you get to experience having both a daughter and a son.

But at the same time, there is a sort of identity around having any combination other than a boy and a girl spaced 2.2 -2.6 years apart.  I find myself in conversations with other people with a sibling 15 months apart like my kids, strangers assure me it's hard at first, but they will be close friends.  If someone has kids 5 years apart, I may find myself in conversation how they may be closer when they get older or my memories of being a lot older than my sisters.  If someone has all girls, I feel like we have something in common because we have all girls.  I imagine people with twins, three kids, four plus kids etc, have a perceived identity around that family configuration.  In fact, I think most people tend to follow-up the least if you have one boy and one girl that it isn't unique in some way. Talking about family configuration identity, I think it is different for the dad that has all girls, not bad or that their life isn't complete without a son, just different. I know my DH gets way more attention taking the girls out to the mall by himself, than I would get with the girls, or he would get if he had two boys with him.  There was also an article I remember reading that there were differences in boys raised in all boy households, versus boys raised in households with a sister.  So anyway, I'm just saying these comments for better or worse have been around atleast 30 years since I can remember and I'm sure I have made silly twin questions that everyone asks just as I have gotten the trying for a boy comment.[/quote]

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