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Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Be Girls |
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Anonymous Author (May 2007) |
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The little boy from next door is 7 and used to come over heaps and spend lots of time here. Now he's not allowed to because his dad's worried about him spending so much time with girls and not enough time with boys. So the girls are allowed over but not the boy! I don't get it, my girl's 3 and she gets on so well with their boy, they play with all her thomas the tank engine toys and play with the cars and car mats and have a great time! what's the big deal about boys playing with girls? If anyone has a boy and doesn't let him play with girls, or not often, could you enlighten me?
Unfortunately it happens. A lot of daddies worry that if their son was to have a doll or all girl friends or dress ups and prefer it over cars and trucks and mud then he will turn gay or become feminine. This of course is totally untrue.
For the first 2 years of his little life my son loved to play with his baby doll. My mum brought it for him when he was 8 months old. I was 3 months pregnant and she wanted to teach him about babies and how you need to be gentle etc. Well this worked a treat and he was the best big brother ever but the thing was that baby doll became his most prized possession. He pushed it in his own little pram, he slept with it, he booby fed it when I fed my new one, he changed its nappy when I changed his baby brothers.
His dad panicked and said I had turned out son into a little girl and he was going to become gay! I was shocked that he actually believed that could happen. He was worried that he didn't play with cars enough so he went over board and brought all these cars and trucks. Yet my son was only interested in pushing his baby doll around in the pram.
This made daddy worried sick! He tried to rough and tumble my son, he tried to take the doll away. He told my mum off for buying it! He was devistated that our son was more girly than he liked.
One day the doll went away. He just lost interest. Its all about developing and learning and at that time my son had a new baby brother on the way and wanted to have his own baby. He wanted to learn how to be gentle and care for something other than himself. Now his brother was 1 and the joy had worn off. It wasn't a new toy anymore. He could now be a little man and play in the mud with his brother, eat the sand, throw his trucks around and yell and make 'boy' noises like his daddy had always dreamed.
That was a year ago and now his favourite toys are those with 4 or more wheels and a horn. If there is a doll about he isn't interested anymore. Did I turn my son into a girl? Nope. Its a stupid silly concept that some parents just cant help but think...
But watch out, because hes just discovered mummies shoes and makeup... and boy wont daddy be over the moon!
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Written well!
Shelley
LMAO
funny that, i was a tom boy right up until i had my son , dad still hated it but was really happy the day i got married and said to me as i was walk down the aile "still a tom boy or are you over it now?" it was so funny that he said it right there and then that i had to laugh afterwards everyone was asking why i was laughing so much 
Amanda
