To ask why little girls seem to be preferred?

[foxtaildream]

Is it just me who has noticed this?

I'm definitely a SMOB! That's a 'smug mother of a boy' btw!

I don't know why. Alot of boys are more affectionate than girls and you dont have to fear a son getting pregnant.

SMH at this statement. Affection depends on the child...it's not gender based IMO.

There's contraception for pregnancy and on that note...you don't have to fear not seeing your GC if you have a son...judging by all the posts on the Step parent threads.

Ex wives deem to control access to kids.

But really...it is down to the relationship a parent has with their child.

I bloody well hate it when people say 'ooooh girl next' because I have 2 boys. I'm just like, 'ok, first of all, there will be no 3rd pregnancy...' I love being a mum to boys!

I don't know why. A lot of boys are more affectionate than girls and you don't have to fear a son getting pregnant.

A load of crap that 'boys are more affectionate.' This is just an old wives tale created by people who have only sons and wanted daughters, to make themselves feel better about having no daughters...

As a pp said, it depends on the child, and how the child is treated/loved etc.... My girls are 2 of the most loving, affectionate, cute, funny, intelligent, caring human beings on the planet.. No sons could have been more affectionate.

As for the 'boys cannot get pregnant' line. What a joke. So boys 'can't get pregnant,' but they can still get a GIRL pregnant, and end up with EIGHTEEN YEARS of child maintenance tied to them, whilst having an almost non-existent relationship with the baby. And as for the grandparents of the boy's child (that he has with a woman who he splits up with;) forget it...... your 'grandchild' will know the postman better than he/she will know you.

Also find that adult daughters care a lot more about their parents/family... Mine have arranged weekends away for me and DH for our anniversary, and parties and meals out for our birthdays. They also visit us a minimum of 4-5 times a month... People I know with adult sons are lucky to get a birthday card off them, and a visit once every 3 months... In addition, the adult daughters of a couple of elderly people I know, visit far more often, administer more care, and take them out a lot more. The sons generally cannot be arsed.

Sounds like I am generalising? I am not. I am saying it like it is. In the majority of families I know, the adult daughters are much closer to the parents, and do far more for them, than the adult sons...

It cannot be easy having negative comments about having boys only, from people you know, but when people who DO have boys only see fit to lay into girls, and berate them, and say how much 'better' boys are, it really boils my piss. Seems like they are trying to convince themselves...........

pet

Is that not an entire post on how much better girls are?

Is that not an entire post on how much better girls are?

Well quite. I’ve never berated girls I have 6 nieces I love dearly and, well, used to be one myself, and never come up with inane comments and stereotypes but do crack on

At the end of the day none of us get a choice in what we get there’s no point getting smug over it or point scoring.

Yeah it is a post on how much better girls are.

So?

It seems to be good enough for some people to say how much more wonderful boys are. Mothers of boys (in real life) have constantly tried to insist that boys are better, like they are trying to convince themselves.

All it screams is 'I WANTED A DAUGHTER!!!'

It is a thing, and that’s because little girls are just lovely!
I’m sorry. They are.
I have 4DCs of both genders and they are/have been and surely will be, wonderful at different stages but there is something breathtakingly, joyously special about little girls.

Perhaps it’s warped societal focus on youth and fertility or maybe it’s the mitochondrial DNA attracting our love and protection but there’s definitely something in it.

People are so weird

Yeah you are obviously not getting the irony of getting irate when posters say how fab boys are and doung a whole post on how great girls are

But like bear said ...crack on

It is a thing, and that’s because little girls are just lovely

Course they are

Some girls are lovely some are horrors

Some boys are lovely some are horrors

Doung

Good grief

Doing obviously

Mothers of boys (in real life) have constantly tried to insist that boys are better, like they are trying to convince themselves.

Honestly I have never come across this and only come across it the other way once when some daft random woman in a swimming pool told me she was luckier than me having girls as they were “much easier”

I’d bloody have short shrift with anyone droning on about how great boys are male privilege has held me back professionally (I believe) and I am damned sure I am not having my 2 grow up thinking their sex makes them better.

Just love your own kids without having to make out they’re better than anyone else’s!

there is something breathtakingly, joyously special about little girls.

🙄

To be fair baked my kids are absolutely better than anyone else's

I just dont go on about it in case it upsets people

Disclaimer: This only applies to DCs under the age of 8/9.

Once they’re into double figures the effect has totally worn off.

sleight

*To be fair baked my kids are absolutely better than anyone else's grin

I just dont go on about it in case it upsets people*

Lucky you mine are pains in the arse

baked

Just spent 20 minutes 'texting' one of mine through writing a cheque

Only to discover that they didnt actually have a cheque book

God they make me laugh

This is something I've really noticed IRL. I presumed it was because girls are more likely to care for or at least be involved with parents as they age, as a PP said.
Boys were always my preference as that what I was used to. But am living my girls now and if course think they're much better!

There are some people who drone on and on about one gender being so much nicer as child. My own mother did this - droned on to anyone who would listen about how much nicer and easier my brother was. And my uncle is just as bad, he has a teenaged daughter who treats him like a fat cashpoint and still wibbles on about how glad he is that he got a girl instead of horrible boys.

It's just stupid. I've got two boys. I liked handing clothes down, but I'd have been just as happy with girls.

And, one of my DTs ( boy) is totally having a moment now.

I honestly would happily grab and spend the rest of my days blissfully inhaling him ( if he’d sit bloody still for a moment).
It’s not just me, his siblings get a bit gooey about his nonsense, his teachers want to go on and on about him.

As a baby, he was a bloody nightmare and his brother was the most delicious thing on the planet!

They all have their time. Maybe I find my DDs’ time more poignant because I know what lies ahead for them as an adult women.
It is harder for them and it does make their uncomplicated childhood beauty more special because it’s still untainted by all the crap the world will burden them with.

I wish that wasn’t the case.

I wanted a girl and if I have a 2nd and 3rd I'll be hoping for more girls. I won't mind a boy, of course, but I've always seen myself with girls.

DH has preference for girls also. In fact the whole of his side of the family have a preference for girls as they are in the minority for them.

I’m from a farming background . Boys are very much the preferred sex . It’s very important to them have an heir to carry on the family name .I know a lot of families with 3 girls and then a boy .