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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am female, with one boy and one girl, and while I appreciate what everyone is saying about the good aspects of having boys, I want to validate the OP and say that there are things I like about having a girl, for sure.

She's different from me in some ways and I don't get to relive all the good elements of my misspent youth through her, but it's fun talking about social drama and sharing books I read with her and shopping for clothes. I love the stuff I do with my son, too--learning about history together, watching all 9 Star Wars movies (totally liked them!), doing online drawing videos together. But I do admit there's a certain extra fun about the girl stuff.

I'm not trying to say this to make you extra jealous, just to validate that you're not crazy for being wistful. That said, of course there are girls with nothing in common with their moms and boys who do tons of things with their moms, so it all comes down to personality in many ways, too. [/quote]

I’m confused.  Why can’t you shop for clothes and share books with your son?  Also boys have social drama.  Ask them and they’ll tell you.

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Omg. New poster here, but please don't play the gender-neutral warrior here, you know exactly what she means. Typically, at a certain age, boys don't care at all about their clothes, and girls enjoy shopping for it. Plus, most companies make crap clothes for boys so even if you enjoyed shopping together with your son, pickings are slim. Perhaps not when they're teens, but certainly when they are 4 and everything has a dumpt truck on it.  And most of the boys I know all like books with male protagonists (which is fine and understandable!) and most girls I know prefer books with female protagonists (again... that's fine).  The poster was probably thinking about books SHE enjoyed as a child.  And, no, boys do NOT have social drama like girls do starting at age 8. Ask any mom of both genders. Stop gaslighting everyone who just honestly wants/wanted a daughter.
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I have a boy and a girl and don’t agree with any of this.[/quote]

Same. I get that it’s prefaced with “typically,” but none of it applies in my household. Hence my earlier point that just because you end up with a boy or girl, doesn’t mean they will bear any resemblance to what you envisioned before they were born.[/quote]

Gotta say as a girl who hated shopping and had to be dragged and probably would have hated Taylor Swift too I’m so glad my mom didn’t pin her ambitions of mothering daughters on this kind of stereotypical stuff!

Of course having said this, I’m trying to prepare myself to be ready to be supportive of a Taylor Swift loving daughter and a baseball loving son in case that’s what I end up with.  I have full confidence I will find something to be excited about in my kids’ interests even if they would have been alien to teen me. [/quote]

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