Why does the sex of a child come into play at all? As long as they are friends and treating each other as they should then there should never be a problem with girls and boys hanging out! Point of fact just 2 nights ago 2 of my 11 yr old sons friends dropped by to ask for his help in finding a lost cat! They are both girls after searching for about an hour, they chose to have a snoeball fight in our backyard instead. One of the girls is 11 and the other is 12. they have been friends since first grade, and why should that change just because of their age? my daughters who are 20, 21 & 24 still hang out with their guy friends that they have had since public school, they are pals and always will be so what do you forsee as the problem? Why seperate friends just because of gender? Do you have any male friends or are all of them female? Let them have the friends that make them happy, they are kids for such a short time why put pessure on them when its not necessary!

Your daughter was born as a clean slate... Let her paint her own life picture without you projecting her worries on to her.  Just nurture her, guide her & be there for her IF this so-called separation occurs - I can't say it EVER happened to me.  Everyone needs all different sorts of friends, the fact is - she has friends - this is the most important thing.

Boys have better toys, are a lot more fun & they aren't half as nasty as a lot of young ladies can be.  They say what they mean, that makes them seem mean, but they are a lot easier to understand because of this.  She sounds like a very sensible young lady to me.

Well when i was growing up thought the years i play with boys more so then girls  ,My bothers mates use to come over and we all knock around togther , and some of us are still in touch today.

I just let it be  , also i fine one of sons knock around with more girls then boys and the other compelte oppoised to that  .

I personally find encouraging children to segregate by such superficial sexist social casting to be offensive.  Would you tell your child she is should not be playing with children of a different skin colour?  Or to not play with children that aren't of exactly the same religion?  Children will naturally segregate into groups, but it's not by gender, it's by interest.  Boys usually prefer boyish things, and girls prefer girlish things, so they separate for that reason.  You will still find the occassional girl hanging out with the boys or boy with the girls, because they have similar interests. There is nothing wrong with that. The kids that break the standard gender interests will only stop doing so when external pressure from other kids teasing them makes them stop - and the other kids usually only tease because parents teach and encourage the idea that 'boys don't do that, girls don't do this' nonsense in the first place.

I was never one for having girly friends, I always prefered to play with the boys just because their games were more interesting to me.  I didn't want to play dolls or tea sets, and the other girls didn't want to play cars and ride bikes, play footy, etc; so I stuck with having the friends that were doing the things I was most interested in.  Consequently I was the girl that played it rough with the boys from Kindy right through to... well... still do!

I'm inclined to say, let your daughter choose her own friends with similar interests to her.  You wouldn't want someone coming along and dictating to you who you should be talking to or what you should be interested in reading on Minti now would you? Sure, if your daughter starts hanging out with a group of kids that are totally undesirable and into doing all the wrong things, then certainly that should be discouraged, but other than that, it's really up to her who she hangs out with.

My 7 year old son's best friend is a girl in his class, has been since their first day at school.  They both play with cars and dolls together equally and have a lot of similar interests.  It's really good.  He gets on better with the girls in the class, and his little best friend gets along better with the boys.  I wish more kids could interact like that and show the rest of society how to forget about the whole sexist social casting nonsence that goes on.

Just my thoughts.

Hiya all the way through school my mates were guys....My best mate of 21 years is a guy....I never played with the girls for a few reasons for one they wanted to play girly games and I wanted to be rough and tumble you know....Then as I got older girls were just so nasty and I was not interested in their rubbish....I had a couple of female friends when I got older but only ones who were interested in normal stuff not girly stuff....I dont think its a big problem most of the boys when I was younger still played with me after they worked out girl germs too because they saw me as one of the boys....Just my thoughts on it
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Angie

My daughter always had mostly boy friends too and even now she has a few close girl friends that she has know for years and also lots boy friends. She says you can have a laugh with the boys and there are no catty remarks!! Your child will make her own friends male or female to suit her needs
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Kids will be kids. you cant choose there friends for them. Rather guied them softly in the right direction. You'll find at this age though, 1 day they will be friends and the next day they wont. Dont stress about it too much, She'll have lots of girl friends soon!!

personally i dont think its something that needs to b interfered with, not at this point anyway they work it out themselves usually. i would b worried that saying these types of things to her will create a real sense of difference in herself an inferiority complex if u will. i know heaps of little tomboys who play with their 'boy' friends and cruise along quite fine with it.

I don't think this is anything to huge. I was the same when i was l younger and still am. I have always had more guy friends than girl friends. I have just been more comfortable around guys, they don't bitch as much. haha. She will sort things out for herself so i doubt you have to do anything. Some girls just want to hang out with the guys. When i got to the "boy" stage of my childhood i wasn't that into it like most girls. I think that was mainly due to the fact that i had hung around them all my life. So it could be a blessing when she hits those boy crazy years. I think just let her go and if it does start to be a problem then step in but for now just let her be. Hope this helps.