4 DS's V 4 DD's

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Not really sure what the point of this programme is but am gonna watch

But, it's telly so OF COURSE they've gone for very girly girls and very boysy boys.

My mate has 4 boys and they're right across the spectrum of arty-sporty-academic-creative-violent.

TBH, if it they weren't so stereotypical it wouldn't make a very good programme would it?

Cant see why he cant make catapults with girls

DP is now sitting here all sad as we havent got a boy - double

Why can't she take her boys horse riding?

My DS's love horse riding

Pony looks like a bit of a git

Well, I've lost all interest and am going to wander off and pluck my eyebrows

Why couldn't the conclusion of the programme have been - boy vs girls - not so different but blimey families of 4 have their work cut out?

That was a pointless waste of an hour

Oh, it wasn't very good anyway, sterotypes or not!!

Waddaloadashite

total crap.
what a waste of time.

dad of boys ended up looking the worst, glad my dad wasn't like that.
yuk

yes dad of boys was Harry Enfield as competitive dad

and I didn't like his whole "having girls, it just wouldn't be me" stuff. Bit smug/chauvinist imo

Bet at least one of them's on here, though, with the chickens et al.

So one of the DD families' favourite weekend activities is shopping?
In my experience this 'interest' only comes about when shopping is the favourite activity of the mother; nurture rather than nature again.
I was starting to feel guilty that I don't so much of this stuff with DD (12), but she said she doesn't know any girls who do the full-on dancing, ponies, shopping, manicure thing - and she goes to an all-girls' school.

god that was incredibly crap.

it really said nothing did it?

how crap.

Other than "if you rode ponies as a gal but don't now, take it up again". A life lesson for us all, I think.

oh yeh, forgot that

in her jodpurs that she wore when she was 12 after 4 kids?

what was the point of that programme? I lost count of the amount of Boden they were wearing!! Its never realistic when they are loaded, its like those dramas on tv we watch (Mistresses springs to mind) where everyone is so perfect and well off, makes me feel inferior. How come it didnt show you them having a good scrap and needing to be told off? they couldnt have been that perfect!! The girls were the same age as my nieces and no way would dragging them around a shopping centre be there idea of a fun thing to do.

i was wondering how much 7 hours a week of ballet lessons would cost.
best to stick with two and avoid the ballet lessons altogether methinks.

Boys' mum looked MN through and through. Even had the haircut. Bet she's here, reading this now.

Lovely kids, all of them. Lovely middle-class lives too.

Gah and their houses and gardens! Lovely. Was watching with a view to seeing how my life with 2DSs would pan out wrt comparing with mums with DDs but I didn't really learn anything. Made me think the mum-of-boys had more space and time of her own, though, does anyone think this is true?

MrsJamin - I have two boys and they don't pester me much. Some friends' girls interact a lot with them but others just go and do their own thing. Don't think you can prejudge this. You can always bring them up to not pester you, I guess. Again, nature vs nurture ... Stupid programme.

Don't mean "pester" in a nasty way, of course.

I have two boys and a girl and I can't say any one of them has been more demanding of my attention than the others overall.

The oldest is now 15 and the youngest 9 and I can say they've been well and truly trained not to bother me with trifles!