Daddy's girls and mummy's boys - is it true?

[Peonii]

I have a one year old daughter that both DH and I are absolutely in love with. At the moment she loves to tease DH and pretend she doesn't want to give him kisses but I was reassuring him that's just a phase. My mum said girls grow up to be daddy's girls and boys grow up to be mummy's boys. And another lady in a shop said girls just quarrel with their mum's all the time when they grow up and she's just waiting for her own daughters to have their own babies as she knows that's when they'll come running back to her for help.

Anyway, I know it's a generalisation, but I was just curious to know what your DC's relationships are like with you as a parent and whether it reflects in your relationship? I absolutely love spending time with my baby girl and look forward to doing lots together when she's a bit older too. I know my own relationship with my own mum can be strained at times because I feel she can be a bit nit picky with me sometimes (I once made a thread under a different username and MN was convinced she's quite toxic). I'm trying to avoid repeating some of my mum's patterns as I would love to have a better relationship with my DD when she's older.

I think there is something in it, often there is more ease in opposite sex family relationships. Mother-daughter and father-son relationships are often tricky and a bit fraught.

Not my experience at all. The personalities of the people involved are more important, alongside shared interests. DD and I are very similar and get along great. Ds is very affectionate to everyone but really loves to game with DH. I avoid both my parents where at all possible.

We have a son and a daughter. They’re very close to both of us, and to each other. Don’t bring them up with stupid stereotypes.

Not in my experience

Do you really think that every boy who has a mum and a dad is closer to their mum? And same for girls and their dads?
Have you met many people in your life ?

Everyone is different and has different relationships with their parents, who also have different personalities and parenting styles from each other. All of these things also change over time.

The sex of each person involved has little effect, when compared with the millions of other factors and life experiences that contribute to the quality of a relationship.

Not my experience at all. I was always closer to my mum than my dad, from baby to adult. I have a boy and a girl it’s 50/50 with both of them.

Seems to be true-ish in our family (tweens age now).

Just stereotyping nonsense!

I'm closer to my mam.

My son is closer to me than he is to his dad.

What is it with these sexist threads about children lately?

I have boys and girls and they are all very close to me, and not their dad, so I would say its entirely personality dependent. I also have had 1 argument in 23 years of parenting, and that was with one of my sons, so arguing isn't a given either.

However, saying that a 1yo is teasing and pretending, rather than just not wanting a kiss could potentially lead to problems if he/you tries to force the issue.

Mine were like this when they were young but now they're older teenagers they prefer to talk to the same sex parent.

I don't know, there was another one about "mummy's boys" the other day.
It's the people who pipe up "yes it's true because I know 6 people that this could loosely describe!"

Growing up dd1 was a daddy's girl and dd2 a mummy's girl. During teen years dd1 and I struggled but she adored her dad but dd2 took her teen angst out on her dad and we were fine.

As adults I've became closer to dd1 and she now has little contact with her dad (toxic man) I'm extremely close still to dd2.

Ds1 is still young but probably more for me than his dad.

My dh has a sister she's much closer to both their parents than he is.

At the moment she loves to tease DH and pretend she doesn't want to give him kisses

Your one year old?

DD is a teen and we are very close and don't argue. She's not close to her Dad.