To love having a girl?

You are kidding yourself if you think you love them equally, and no one believes you.

That's lovely @NutellaPancakes123. I have just boys and often wonder what a girl would be like. Im not a girly girl but I suspect if I had a daughter she wouldn't be either.
But who knows 🤷‍♀️

This is such a confused, self-contradictory post.

I have 2 girls. One was girly and pink the other completely opposite

They never got on

Unfortunately some posters still live with the pink for a girl and blue for a boy mentality

These "stereotypes" exist for a reason. Because in general girls and boys play differently and enjoy different types of toys, and there's nothing wrong with that. Boys and girls are different, despite what some people want to believe, or have everyone else believe. I have boys and girls so they're all exposed to all the different toys in the playroom, and what the boys choose to play with compared to my daughter is completely different. Also what my two boys choose are often different to eachother, it's all personal choice.

I think that if that's how you feel about boys its a good thing. Let's hope the girls keep on being cute eh?

No but it is horrible to say you wouldnt risk another pregnsncy just in case it was a boy.

Really? It’s horrible to enjoy the children you have?

Not necessarily odd but sad in that you are bringing up your children with reductive stereotypes of what are girl's things v boy's things! I was sort of hoping that as a society we were moving away from the 'pink princess' version of being a girl and teaching our girls that they can be/wear/play with whatever they like!

Yes, over the years they’ve seen these toys and activities at playgroups, classes and afterschool clubs. They’re not interested 😊

Wwll thars becsuse shes your daughtee
I have a very close relstionship with my 19 year old son .

No, they have no interest in the barbies. I play beyblades or lego etc with them.

I had 3 boys and my 4th was a girl... I LOVE having a girl for all the reasons you mentioned. She's 2 and I still can't believe she's real. I adore my boys they are amazing, I just feel like she is the cherry on the cake and I love hanging out with her. I hope that she and I have a close relationship when she's older as I am super close to my own mother and I was also the only girl. Enjoy it all as they do grow and change so fast xx

YANBU. The odds are that a boy is not going to be into makeup, Barbies, et cetera, and while not all girls will be into those things either, there’s certainly a much higher chance. And I think it’s natural to want to share your interests with your children.

I have two daughters, who are eight and eleven, and while I have interests they don’t share and they have interests I don’t share, I think we’d have a lot fewer overlapping interests if they were boys. Most boys are not going to be excited about new Rainbow High or Monster High releases (I’m a doll collector), or want to make earrings with their mothers, or have a favorite American Girl character (we’re American), or get really into fairies and mermaids. Even with a lot more “neutral” toys, boys and girls, on average, play differently. My husband, my daughters and I all love Lego, but my husband spent his childhood building spaceships and tanks, while my daughters like to make houses and playgrounds for the minifigures.

Just make sure you’re spending special time with your son as well.

I loved having girls when they where younger but the teenage years where rough I found the boys a lot easier as teens

I love having a girl, she is all grown now and an only child but I can’t imagine having a bond with a boy like I do with her.

My ds has never shown any interest at all in dolls or stereotypically ‘girls’ toys.

That isn’t to say we don’t have any common ground. We both like nature and animals, books and history. But the doll thing? Not happening.

DD has loads, though (all called ‘baby’, rather unimaginatively.)

Do you not play Barbies and babies with your DS’s?

My Mum was like this when we were young. Then i grew up, started developing my own personality, figured out who i wanted to be instead of who she wanted me to be and she didn't like the real 'me'. We have nothing in common, she doesn't like my husband, we barely talk now.

Fair enough.

I am a dad and wanted our second to be a boy as we had a daughter. But our second daughter is such a joy that I don’t care. I never think about it and am truly grateful to have amazing, healthy girls.

I have one of each and I am really disturbed by people who obsess about one or the other. Mine are both young adults now and I love the bones of each of them because they are both splendid humans not because of their sex or gender. Those with toddler girls banging on about girly days etc you just wait until they start asserting their own personalities at about 4 and you might be in for a shock.

Not all girls agre ‘girly’ though. My dd1 certainly never was, hated having ever to wear a dress, never wanted to play girly games, and still only bothers with makeup once in a blue moon. I sometimes think that in a previous era the trans activists would be falling over themselves to tell her she’d been born in the wrong body.

But she grew into a very female woman, with 3 dcs of her own.

Dd2 was a much more ‘typical’ girl, liked Barbies, makeup, retc., but has never wanted kids! Always said she’d prefer a dog!

I love having both a boy and a girl, there's nothing wrong with enjoying your children! But boys can like barbies and unicorns too.

You've really riled everyone up with your post OP!
I actually completely understand what you're saying as I feel the same. I always wanted a girl, as I had such a close relationship and friendship with my own mum I always hoped to have that with a daughter of my own. After having two boys (who I absolutely adore and love to pieces) I knew I would want to have a third with the hope to have a girl.

Unfortunately my mum passed away when I was pregnant with DS2, but when we found out our third was going to be a girl I just felt she was my little gift from my lovely mum. I absolutely adore having a girl, we play barbies and babies, we say things like "it's just the girls at home today". I also love having boys and feel very lucky to have both. I have a particular bond with DS2, he's most similar to me in personality and he's very attached to me paticularly.