I have a boy and a girl and think #boymoms are ridiculous. SO many comments on "just you wait until you see what boys do/how messy they are/how active".

#girlmom and #boymom are just sexist. Parent the child you have. Yes some boys are totally dirty, messy, but so are plenty of girls. One of my sons is the stereotypical boy, but it's just as much work as my overly emotional daughter or my clean son.

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Anonymous wrote:Please.. someone explain what a boy-mom is?

A mom who only has boys and is always surrounded by boys.

Pretty much once you have boys moms of girls dump you because your kids are too crazy and you find yourself with friends that are moms of boys.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I have two girls. My best friend has two boys. We spend tons of time together with all of our kids. Our friendship has not suffered one bit due to our childrens' genders.

Glad for you. But for me it has been different. Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls don't like. I know 2 girls that like it, one probably just tolerates it.

As our friends group evolves, the girls gravitated towards other activities... and eventually all was left was moms with just boys.

Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls aren’t encouraged or allowed to do.

FIFY

My DD wrestles, jumps, throws aballs in the creek, collects newts, and the like. So do her friends.

You know why girls don’t usually do these things? Because their mothers are putting them in Hanna Anderson matchy outfits, and running around them, fretting that they will become dirty or messy, or whatever. Because they have their own idea of what a girl mom is.

It’s so strange to me, all the talk about equality, when we start to separate what boys and girls should be st the age of birth.,

I see it usually on tshirts and memes and scarymommy type posts. A lot of times they're ads selling tshirts, with smug looking mommies standing there with her hands raised like "oh, well, what do you do?". The ones that trigger me are the ones with sports. I have a son that likes art, writing, avengers but hates sports. This stereotyping makes me feel like a failure because my boy doesn't like those things. Like, what did I do wrong as a boymom?

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes...
Have we reached the point in the thread where #boymoms complain about all the slutty Delilahs in their son’s home room.
Good stuff.
Make sure to write an op ed about leggings, ladies!

Ah yes...

girl drama has arrived.... going together = slutty...

#thankfultobeaboymom

Anonymous wrote:It’s a catchphrase and hashtag that some people like to use to signal that they are part of a special group with unique problems and experiences. It’s usually deployed with a faint air of exasperation and ever so slightly smacks of disappointment. I mean pride.

“Just bought our 15th nerf gun. #boymom”
“Didn’t know pee could reach a 9 foot ceiling. #boymom”

A 9 foot ceiling? Well, that is actually noteworthy.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you people completely unconnected from the world? Do you not use twitter or instagram? #boymom is a thing.

Is this the 50s forum???

ThT'smwhat I'm thinking. I'm a girl mom, but I've seen the boymom thing on Facebook. It's usually memes. I can't believe there are mom's of only boys who don't get it. For what it's worth, I don't have a problem with it. It's basically just light hearted venting over how hard it is to have only boys.

As a father of 3 girls, I literally have no idea. I do miss having awesome Nerf dart guns....er.... Nerf dart "dispensers"

Please buy them anyway. Nerf Rebelle, if you want the one marketed to girls.

Anonymous wrote:Are you people completely unconnected from the world? Do you not use twitter or instagram? #boymom is a thing.

Is this the 50s forum???

No.

Ah yes...
Have we reached the point in the thread where #boymoms complain about all the slutty Delilahs in their son’s home room.
Good stuff.
Make sure to write an op ed about leggings, ladies!

I haven't Seen it on my social media. But none of my friends are the types to post things like that (not just boymom but any of those silly hashtags). Don't really know people like this in real life either.

Anonymous wrote:#boymom goes away pretty quick once kids hit MS, when boys become the focus of girl's attention and boys become the superior gender until they get married and shit on.

Actually the divide is greater in middle school where girls are trying to date and the boys have no clue ... and they end up going with somebody because Larla told them so at lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:Please.. someone explain what a boy-mom is?

A mom who only has boys and is always surrounded by boys.

Pretty much once you have boys moms of girls dump you because your kids are too crazy and you find yourself with friends that are moms of boys.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I have two girls. My best friend has two boys. We spend tons of time together with all of our kids. Our friendship has not suffered one bit due to our childrens' genders.

Glad for you. But for me it has been different. Boys wrestle and throw balls and creek and do lots of thing the majority of girls don't like. I know 2 girls that like it, one probably just tolerates it.

As our friends group evolves, the girls gravitated towards other activities... and eventually all was left was moms with just boys.

Anonymous wrote:OP - yes, my facebook and twitter feeds are full of this and it's so dumb!! Somehow all of my high school friends had boys while I had girls and they are all into their MLMs and #Boymom. I really think it's a midwestern thing, and maybe that's why the people on DCUM don't know what you're talking about.

I actually find it to be more of a thing amongst anxious, perfectionist, previously stylishly coiffed professionals who have now had their world shaken by raising ANY child. They’re looking for a perfectly reasonable out as to why their life is not the way they envisioned, and think that girls are somehow compliant, clean, and adorable. It’s why sex prefer nice is still a thing.

Come to me, #boymoms, I’ll show you what #feistygirlchild can do in a day

Weird. I'm a mom of two boys and I've never heard of #boymom or anything similar. I have a number of friends who also only have boys, which is coincidental, not because I'm not into #girlmom. I'm on Twitter and Facebook. I guess my friends aren't into it either because no one has posted anything about that.

I wish I had a girl.

OP needs to widen her circle if this is what's she's seeing all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure this became a thing because people feel sorry for moms who only have boys. Like a solidarity concept. So many with girls can't fathom how many of us are happy with only boys.

I have never used #boymom or even seen it on my social media feeds, but I have definitely had parents of girls express pity to me for having only boys. It's obnoxious.

It goes both ways. My sil expresses horror at the idea of having a girl almost every time we see her. She thinks she’s being funny, but says this freely in front of my young daughter. Another mother of boys I know can’t talk about girls without rolling her eyes. Apparently girls were born to ruffle male feathers.

It’s all stupid, any way you look at it.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure this became a thing because people feel sorry for moms who only have boys. Like a solidarity concept. So many with girls can't fathom how many of us are happy with only boys.

I have never used #boymom or even seen it on my social media feeds, but I have definitely had parents of girls express pity to me for having only boys. It's obnoxious.