Any one else who actually LIKES having all boys?

[tide]

I can't tell you how sick I am of all the demonising of boys that goes on in mum circles. When I was about to have my third boy all I got was pitying comments about how brave/foolish I was. Got me so worried. And all so unneccesarily. Who says boys are always more unruly/messy/loud/sports crazy/obtuse etc etc. Mine aren't. They sit and draw for hours, they cook, they give the best hugs and chats... all the things I was told I would be missing out on if I didn't have girls. So far all I've missed out on is endless fights about what to wear, moans, whinges and psycho warfare. Why did no-one tell me boys could be so lovely? That's not true. Before the first was born the old Irish lady next door told me. But I didn't believe her. Now I do.

Tide girls docile . Wish that my dd was she is like a whirlwind and is so active and rought and tumble, getting clothes muddy and dirty all the time.

pigletmania: well that's what I mean, you just can't generalise. Now my kids are older I'm meeting first time mums who feel the way I used, to, they're actively scared and disheartened by the prospect of having a boy, when anyone who has kids knows that having a girl is no guarantee of getting an obedient little moppet! All the antiboy progaganda and the SMUGS do everyone a disservice.

Boys are the best
I was absolutely over the moon when told that our twins will be boys! Had been so paranoid about having girl/s that DH was getting worried...
DTs - they are so funny and clever and cuddly and loving and boisterous and lively and entertaining and simply faaaaabulous!
Love our boys!

I love having a boy - and agree with Tide about the extraordinary way society seems so much more gender stereotyped than when I was a child in the seventies (the Tweenies drives me to distraction - the girls flick their hair and simper and the boys are thick and hyperactive - it's on my more-or-less banned list of programmes). Having said that, as a life-long tomboy it's lovely to play with trains and play football all the time (yes, I know girls do this too, I did as a child, but what if I'd had, gulp, a girly girl). He's also cuddly and loves his toy cooker and pram.

No your really cant, i think that when i was younger i was thick and hyper