Are Girls Harder to Raise Than Boys?
Hard to say, really.
I always wanted boys, thinking that they'd be easier to raise.
And let's face it, boys don't actually get pregnant.
My stepmother who had quite a few of each gender said she preferred girls.
Or at least found them easier.
Her view was that boys were hard work all the way, whereas you just had to keep the girls from getting pregnant or married too young! My experience has actually proved her point.
I have had to micro manage the boys through school - learning problems, bullying - first as a victim and secondly (in self defence I think) as a bully.
I have had deep and meaningful conversations with many a teacher over the years.
I have sweated over those boys.
By comparison my daughter has learned to read and write (and a little 'rithmetic!) without any apparent hassles.
She's not hard to get on with, she is usually liked by teachers and students alike.
Her one episode as a bully victim was easily fixed with a school change and she just blossomed again.
She has nowhere near the attitude of the boys so far.
But are girls harder to raise than boys? There is the problem.
I've just entered the Twilight Zone.
Do you hear the music? It's the music from the Jaws movie, if you didn't recognise it.
I'm just a little scared - in and out of the water.
I have two boys who after many, many years of worry, guilt, and grey hairs are about to emerge from the feral cocoon into - whatever! Their Future - whatever they choose for it to be.
Time to relax? Not on your Nelly! Enter teen No: 3.
A girl - 13 yo going on 33 yo.
Is it genetic? This ability to look at you from the corner of their eye and roll it at the same time? If so I'd be interested in Genetic Modification - blow the GM soybeans - I want to modify the teen girl.
She has been so easy to parent so far; But these are the trouble years.
The years when you know you are up against an expert, they are born to crack the code.
They lull you into a false sense of peace.
Then Wham.
TEEN TIME.
Play the Jaws music again, please.
The real problem for me is: I've done the hard yards with the boys...
and now I'm looking straight down the barrel at hard yards with the girl.
No time out for good behaviour on my part! No long service leave.
No pat on the back for doing a good job.
Hardly seems fair really! Just a footnote on raising boys and pregnancy tho - I think you'll find there's been a big upturn in the numbers of pregnant girlfriends moving in with the boys parents lately...
keep it in mind.
Scary really to be a parent at all.
I always wanted boys, thinking that they'd be easier to raise.
And let's face it, boys don't actually get pregnant.
My stepmother who had quite a few of each gender said she preferred girls.
Or at least found them easier.
Her view was that boys were hard work all the way, whereas you just had to keep the girls from getting pregnant or married too young! My experience has actually proved her point.
I have had to micro manage the boys through school - learning problems, bullying - first as a victim and secondly (in self defence I think) as a bully.
I have had deep and meaningful conversations with many a teacher over the years.
I have sweated over those boys.
By comparison my daughter has learned to read and write (and a little 'rithmetic!) without any apparent hassles.
She's not hard to get on with, she is usually liked by teachers and students alike.
Her one episode as a bully victim was easily fixed with a school change and she just blossomed again.
She has nowhere near the attitude of the boys so far.
But are girls harder to raise than boys? There is the problem.
I've just entered the Twilight Zone.
Do you hear the music? It's the music from the Jaws movie, if you didn't recognise it.
I'm just a little scared - in and out of the water.
I have two boys who after many, many years of worry, guilt, and grey hairs are about to emerge from the feral cocoon into - whatever! Their Future - whatever they choose for it to be.
Time to relax? Not on your Nelly! Enter teen No: 3.
A girl - 13 yo going on 33 yo.
Is it genetic? This ability to look at you from the corner of their eye and roll it at the same time? If so I'd be interested in Genetic Modification - blow the GM soybeans - I want to modify the teen girl.
She has been so easy to parent so far; But these are the trouble years.
The years when you know you are up against an expert, they are born to crack the code.
They lull you into a false sense of peace.
Then Wham.
TEEN TIME.
Play the Jaws music again, please.
The real problem for me is: I've done the hard yards with the boys...
and now I'm looking straight down the barrel at hard yards with the girl.
No time out for good behaviour on my part! No long service leave.
No pat on the back for doing a good job.
Hardly seems fair really! Just a footnote on raising boys and pregnancy tho - I think you'll find there's been a big upturn in the numbers of pregnant girlfriends moving in with the boys parents lately...
keep it in mind.
Scary really to be a parent at all.
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