to moms with both boys and girls

[carnation]

What differences did you expect beforehand between your sons and your daughters? What really happened?

I expected some differences but I really think they're totally different. It's not just the frills vs. blue jeans thing and about half of my girls aren't the frilly type anyway. Boys are just more...earthy, it seems. Different senses of humor, definitely. For instance, my 7-year-old son is the only boy on his gymnastics team and we just got the team picture back. The little girls are posing cutely and grinning and my son has rolled his eyes back up into his head. (His brothers loved it, his sisters were disgusted.)

There was a day on which everybody on his row could take a book for the teacher to read out loud. He slipped "Walter the Farting Dog" into his bookbag and was upset when the teacher wouldn't read it.

What have you experienced?

[catiebug]

I have two boys - 8 and 10 - and know exactly what you mean!

Originally Posted by carnation

There was a day on which everybody on his row could take a book for the teacher to read out loud. He slipped "Walter the Farting Dog" into his bookbag and was upset when the teacher wouldn't read it.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by carnation

He slipped "Walter the Farting Dog" into his bookbag and was upset when the teacher wouldn't read it.

slight hijack

There's really a book called "Walter the Farting Dog?" Boy, I missed out during my childhood LOL

/hijack

[navane]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

slight hijack

There's really a book called "Walter the Farting Dog?" Boy, I missed out during my childhood LOL

/hijack

Yes, my dad bought the book and toy dog for my nephew this past Christmas. 8-year-old Dylan ran up to me with the farting Walter stuffed toy and held it up so I could hear it pass gas.

Originally Posted by carnation

There was a day on which everybody on his row could take a book for the teacher to read out loud. He slipped "Walter the Farting Dog" into his bookbag and was upset when the teacher wouldn't read it.

The teacher wouldn't read it? Lame. Heaven forbid if the children find reading "fun".

.....Kelly

[carnation]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

slight hijack

There's really a book called "Walter the Farting Dog?" Boy, I missed out during my childhood LOL

/hijack

There's a whole series of Walter books and they're prominently displayed in Barnes and Noble! He has 3, I know that one is "Walter the Farting Dog Goes On a Cruise".

You know, the whole picture-taking thing (re: the gymnastics picture) is a boy-girl thing too. You know how in a yearbook, the girls' teams--no matter how tough they are--are all grinning hugely and the boys are all scowling--so as to scare opponents, I guess. One of my favorite high school yearbook pictures is of last year's football team:all the guys are scowling fiercely and the kicker (a girl who scored lots of extra points for this region-winning 4A team) is smiling beautifully.

I have an 8 yr old little boy and i guess nothing has phased me with his little boy mentality. I knew i wasnt getting a girl and being the only girl between two brothers i knew it wasnt going to be tea parties and pink foo foo dresses. In my house what rules is: Avatar, Danny Phantom, play stations and dirt and outdoors!

[alum]

From what I've seen from my friends' kids and my own, the boys are less concerned about excelling in school. They don't practice their instruments on their own w/o it being suggested, they aren't as concerned with getting extra credit points, they won't color an ISN because the decorative stuff is superflous in their eyes.

There is a USMA saying that says "if the minimum wasn't good enough, it wouldn't be the minimum." I know too many males that live by that saying.

[SWTXBelle]

I had two girls - now 18 and 16 - first. Then I had the boys - now 6 and 4.
WOW. I always say I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, and it turned out to be an oncoming train. The boys just never, never stop. They love mud in a way the girls wouldn't have ever thought of. I say things I've never had to say before like "Don't pee off the porch!" and "This is a pants required zone!". I will also say they are amazingly sweet - especially my 4 year old. Loving and cuddly - which is a good thing (!) - but when they are quiet I panic - when the girls were little and quiet, they were playing Barbies. The boys are probably tearing down the house.

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I had two girls - now 18 and 16 - first. Then I had the boys - now 6 and 4.
WOW. I always say I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, and it turned out to be an oncoming train. The boys just never, never stop. They love mud in a way the girls wouldn't have ever thought of. I say things I've never had to say before like "Don't pee off the porch!" and "This is a pants required zone!". I will also say they are amazingly sweet - especially my 4 year old. Loving and cuddly - which is a good thing (!) - but when they are quiet I panic - when the girls were little and quiet, they were playing Barbies. The boys are probably tearing down the house.

My step sons are like this. They are 16 & 10 now but I've known then since they were 13 and 7. The "dont pee off the porch" slogan is a popular one. But then Kelsy (she's 11 now but was 9 at the time) decided she was going to take a picture of charlie peeing off the porch. we had to have the talk with both of them abotu how we do not take pictures of ourselves or others peeing and pooping (and they laugh through the whole lecture). We've also had many lectures to charlie about "skid marks" in his underwear. We throw away atleast one pair a week. Again, he finds this humrous.

Kelsy has always been girlie and quiet. Pj (the 16 year old) has always been quiet but still to this day likes to take things apart (and then is unable to put them back together), and Charlie.........well God help charlie. he leaves our house for school in a clean t-shirt and comes home with half if not most of his lunch and half the playground dirt on it. he's constantly in and out of the house. Has to be doing something or playing with someone from 7:30am to 9pm. He too is obsessed with farting and making home movies of himself. When charlie's little friend from across the street comes over it looks like a tornado has been through my yard and inside my house! He's also obsessed with having a girlfriend eventhough he's in the fourth grade. He recently told his teacher during a self assessment interview that his lack of having a girlfriend was a problem he felt she needed to address.