Anonymous wrote:Daughters don't always have great relationships with their mothers as teens or adults.
Anonymous wrote:Daughters don't always have great relationships with their mothers as teens or adults.
Anonymous wrote:We are one and done and our child is a girl. I would never say this out loud but I definitely wanted a girl and do not have a desire to have a boy. I know it's wrong and I should value boys and girls. I don't know, I guess I feel I can relate more to a girl? But I sense my DH feels the same way. It isn't rational or fair, I know that
Anonymous wrote:I feel like the girl moms are a bit much. I literally had one tell me ( a mom of only boys) that only girl's stay in touch after marriage and that my son was "just mine until marriage". What a horrible thing to say to a toddler mom.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think the perception is that girls are easier to manage behaviorally. Im not saying that it’s true, but that is what people think.
Ask any teacher. Girls are easier to manage than boys. Boys can make up for it by being held back a year in school though.
Anonymous wrote:Watch the Netflix series “ Adolescence.”
It exposes what boys are really like today, and also why no one wants to have one.
Anonymous wrote:I wanted one of each but didn’t care that much. Ended up with one of each. Love them both fiercely but the boy has always been easier to parent. Just an easy personality. What I have seen from friends is that boys tend to be more difficult as young children and girls are more difficult as teens but there are so many exceptions to this and it is not at all universal. Some of what makes my
DD difficult will, I believe, serve her very well in adulthood. It makes me sad that some parents actively don’t want kids of a certain gender.
Anonymous wrote:Watch the Netflix series “ Adolescence.”
It exposes what boys are really like today, and also why no one wants to have one.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think the perception is that girls are easier to manage behaviorally. Im not saying that it’s true, but that is what people think.
Ask any teacher. Girls are easier to manage than boys. Boys can make up for it by being held back a year in school though.
Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a DD, DS, DD in that order. Our DS is just so much harder. He's not as loving or as helpful as the girls. He's also wilder and has more little boy energy. We're a bit more worried about shepherding him into adulthood. There is space in society for less ambitious women, but there isn't for less ambitious men. I honestly don't know anyone who doesn't want their dh to make equal or more money than they do. While we're very glad to have one of each, we were THRILLED that baby 3 was a girl and not a boy.
Also, as another anecdote, the moms I know who have only sons aren't as happy with their lives as those who have only daughters. They're all overwhelmed with how wild little boys are. Or they have leaned into "boy mom life." My closest friend can't stop talking about being a #boymom. Her boys are just insane and have taken over the house. Last time I was there for a BBQ and she had her sons peeing off the deck instead of going in to use the bathroom. She said it's because they trash the bathroom and pee on the floor and walls. (FFS, my son would never do that!)
Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a DD, DS, DD in that order. Our DS is just so much harder. He's not as loving or as helpful as the girls. He's also wilder and has more little boy energy. We're a bit more worried about shepherding him into adulthood. There is space in society for less ambitious women, but there isn't for less ambitious men. I honestly don't know anyone who doesn't want their dh to make equal or more money than they do. While we're very glad to have one of each, we were THRILLED that baby 3 was a girl and not a boy.
Also, as another anecdote, the moms I know who have only sons aren't as happy with their lives as those who have only daughters. They're all overwhelmed with how wild little boys are. Or they have leaned into "boy mom life." My closest friend can't stop talking about being a #boymom. Her boys are just insane and have taken over the house. Last time I was there for a BBQ and she had her sons peeing off the deck instead of going in to use the bathroom. She said it's because they trash the bathroom and pee on the floor and walls. (FFS, my son would never do that!)