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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s around puberty. I agree that the boys do not really talk about their crushes. The most I’ve heard is them talking about another guy getting rejected in an embossing way which is like top news for the MS group. The girls talk about this stuff and strategize around it. The boys don’t really.

Mine had his first girlfriend in 8th grade and now has a pretty serious girlfriend in 9th.

Ugh #boymom

DP - and a girl's mom. girls talk about boys 99% of the time. maybe 90% if they have very intense interests. boys don't talk about girls so much. it's just a fact.

As a parent to both teen boy and girls, you are completely ridiculous and sexist with this comment. And that is why so many daughters despise their mother in laws.

Be a better parent.

boys and girls are different. so are men and women and males and females in millions of species. please accept basic biology boys mom, girls mom or whatever mom you are.

It's biology you are talking about. The behavior PP is talking about is psychology. And no girls are not always talking about boys.

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Seems like I’d my MS kid’s friends, the ones with older siblings develop — or at least talk about — crushes at a younger age. Maybe just emulating what they see their older siblings doing?

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Anonymous wrote:Mine son is 13, rising 8th grader. Currently zero interest in anyone romantically. He's overwhelmed by all the constant talk about labels, sex, gender, etc. and says he just "wants to wait".

Same. Mine just wants to play sports. Not sure about crushes, but as far as I know neither he nor his friends really care about girls.

Pp here. My kid and most (definitely not all) his friends are into skateboards and guitars vs girls (or boys) right now

Meanwhile, the girls are texting them and trying to get their attention. In that respect, it’s not much different than what I experienced in middle school a zillion years ago!

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s around puberty. I agree that the boys do not really talk about their crushes. The most I’ve heard is them talking about another guy getting rejected in an embossing way which is like top news for the MS group. The girls talk about this stuff and strategize around it. The boys don’t really.

Mine had his first girlfriend in 8th grade and now has a pretty serious girlfriend in 9th.

Ugh #boymom

DP - and a girl's mom. girls talk about boys 99% of the time. maybe 90% if they have very intense interests. boys don't talk about girls so much. it's just a fact.

As a parent to both teen boy and girls, you are completely ridiculous and sexist with this comment. And that is why so many daughters despise their mother in laws.

Be a better parent.

boys and girls are different. so are men and women and males and females in millions of species. please accept basic biology boys mom, girls mom or whatever mom you are.

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Anonymous wrote:My son was so shy he was visibly shaken if a girl from school said "hi" to him in Starbucks when he was 12/13. By the end of 9th grade he had a girlfriend and he had another later in HS (both lasted about a year). He dated in college and has been with his current GF for about 2 years (both in grad school).

The idea that all boys are filthy porn addicts and/or future sexual assault perpetrators is really getting tired. If either of my kids watched porn as a teen, it was definitely DD.

+1000 so true. Someone on this board hates boys and I'm sorry that they feel that way, but my DS is awesome and they would beg him to date their DD.

It’s this type of delusion that makes #boymoms such as yourself so cringe. I guarantee nobody would be “begging” your son for a date—especially if they knew you.

I think most boys have crushes and they definitely are looking at porn but they would rather die than talk to their mom about either activity.

Girls are generally more open to talking about crushes.

I remember my DS having a little crush on a girl in kindergarten. He actually told me later on in upper ES that he had a little crush on her in the older grades as well. However, his first real crush was a different girl in 5th grade. He told her how he felt and she didn’t reciprocate so he moved on. As of now in middle school, he doesn’t have a crush.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s around puberty. I agree that the boys do not really talk about their crushes. The most I’ve heard is them talking about another guy getting rejected in an embossing way which is like top news for the MS group. The girls talk about this stuff and strategize around it. The boys don’t really.

Mine had his first girlfriend in 8th grade and now has a pretty serious girlfriend in 9th.

Ugh #boymom

DP - and a girl's mom. girls talk about boys 99% of the time. maybe 90% if they have very intense interests. boys don't talk about girls so much. it's just a fact.

As a parent to both teen boy and girls, you are completely ridiculous and sexist with this comment. And that is why so many daughters despise their mother in laws.

Be a better parent.

Anonymous wrote:My son was so shy he was visibly shaken if a girl from school said "hi" to him in Starbucks when he was 12/13. By the end of 9th grade he had a girlfriend and he had another later in HS (both lasted about a year). He dated in college and has been with his current GF for about 2 years (both in grad school).

The idea that all boys are filthy porn addicts and/or future sexual assault perpetrators is really getting tired. If either of my kids watched porn as a teen, it was definitely DD.

+1000 so true. Someone on this board hates boys and I'm sorry that they feel that way, but my DS is awesome and they would beg him to date their DD.

My son was so shy he was visibly shaken if a girl from school said "hi" to him in Starbucks when he was 12/13. By the end of 9th grade he had a girlfriend and he had another later in HS (both lasted about a year). He dated in college and has been with his current GF for about 2 years (both in grad school).

The idea that all boys are filthy porn addicts and/or future sexual assault perpetrators is really getting tired. If either of my kids watched porn as a teen, it was definitely DD.

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Anonymous wrote:Ahh that #boymom responses never disappoint LOL

+1

I always get a good chuckle at moms of teen boys who think their kids are so innocent while most are looking at trashy porn on the daily or not on discord saying the most immature and disgusting vulgar things.

Tell me you don’t have a son without telling me you don’t have a son.

boys looking at porn still does not mean that they are obsessing about a particular girl. it's not in the same category as 'crushes'.

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Anonymous wrote:Ahh that #boymom responses never disappoint LOL

+1

I always get a good chuckle at moms of teen boys who think their kids are so innocent while most are looking at trashy porn on the daily or not on discord saying the most immature and disgusting vulgar things.

Tell me you don’t have a son without telling me you don’t have a son.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s around puberty. I agree that the boys do not really talk about their crushes. The most I’ve heard is them talking about another guy getting rejected in an embossing way which is like top news for the MS group. The girls talk about this stuff and strategize around it. The boys don’t really.

Mine had his first girlfriend in 8th grade and now has a pretty serious girlfriend in 9th.

Ugh #boymom

DP - and a girl's mom. girls talk about boys 99% of the time. maybe 90% if they have very intense interests. boys don't talk about girls so much. it's just a fact.

Who keeps labeling all these responses #boymom?? I, too, would say my 14 year old son does not have any interest in girls. He also has zero physical signs of puberty that I can see (no armpit hair, facial hair, voice change, growth spurt). He could be interested in girls and not telling me. He could be interested in boys and not telling me. Or he could just not be there yet. I do know some kids have crushes at a very young age, but for some, that does not happen until after puberty. And I am not a "#boymom." I have two kids, a boy and a girl. I know my soon-to-be 13 year old daughter has crushes because she will talk about it with friends within my earshot.