When do girls like boys again ?

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DD has just started school and really doesn't like any of the boys, which I know is pretty normal. She's totally freaking out in the corner because a)she got a Christmas card from one b) she needed a big white T-shirt for the school play & one of the boy's Mum has kindly leant her one of her elder son's and she doesn't want to wear it because it's a boy's.

We're going away to stay with friends this weekend as it's their sons birthday. My friend deliberatly didn't get a clown and arranged something else as she knew DD doesn't like them. DD doesn't want to go to a "boys party" Luckily I have a very understanding friend and we've resolved the situation, but this is all getting very embarrasing. Could anyone tell me roughly how long this tends to go on for so I know how much more of this I've got to come !!

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Er...think I never went through it

Me too Motherinferior! (except dh & ds, of course!)

Both my girls are both real "boy fans" (ages 4 & 8). At nursery, both girls best friends were boys and even now 8yo is very close friends with 2 boys in her class.

My DS (6) is going through the "hates girls" stage - has received many Christmas cards from girls with kisses in which has embarrassed him However at home is very happy to play Barbies/mums and dads etc with the girls. Last year, he wouldn't have gone to a girls party unless he knew what other boys were going, but last month was quite happy to go to a girls party when there was just him and another boy

DD does alot of "Thats for BOYS Im not having it" etc etc but does actually like the boys in her nursery - talks about her boyfriends all the time! Tonight we were doing her christmas cards and she made sure 3 of her favourites had extra kisses in - starting early me thinks!

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My DD (9yo) is just starting to like boys again, in the sense that she either fancies them or not. She has just been given a christmas present by one of the boys in her class, some lip gloss. I have to give this boy his dues,he's persistent, just before October ½ term there was a halloween disco at school which they were both at, he gave DD his telephone number but she told him she wasn't interested, he told DD at the disco that he'd already bought her christmas present. But she's coming round now, she's getting him a christmas present, a 'date'. They're going to go to the cinema as she knows that he likes that. So she's going to ask him which film he wants to she, and I'll get the tickets and take them there and for some food afterwards.

It seems that from the other messages here that 9 or 10 yo seems to be the norm. She hated boys from day 1 of starting school (reception) she's now in year 5.

Hm - I only have a son(Yr1), but I know he plays with the girls, although probably not as often as he does with the boys.

He is a very affectionate child, and I was watching on one occasion when he went up to one of the girls he likes best and said "I love you,x". She kind of smiled and rolled her eyes, and turned to her mother and said "He always says that, he says it to y, too". But to be honest he is a bit odd about people - indiscriminately affectionate. Came home from school all sad the other day because he had been told he wasn't supposed to kiss other boys. He just loves everyone - I will be sad when he loses his innocent affection for the world.

I'm rambling....

Thanks for the replies. Looks like it's going to be a few years then !! Thought that might be the case. There's no behaviour problems in the school, the boys all seem pretty well behaved as far as I can see. I shall remind her of this in a few years when as DH has just put it, "hormones take over"