Some crazy UK mother-to-be has a long column about how baby boys are horrible, but she doesn't want you to "condemn" her:
Please don’t condemn me. I know very little about boys, coming from a family of all girls, but what I have seen I really haven’t liked. Boys are gross; they attack their siblings with sticks, are obsessed with toilets, casually murder local wildlife and turn into disgusting teenage boys and then boring, selfish men.
Too late. I'm condemning her. Who would write this about the actual child they are expecting? Any parent who rants about the characteristics of their unborn child is a horrible person. End of analysis. And what kind of guy is she married to?
As for her "critique" of boys, it's all the grossness, attacking things with stick, toilets, killing kind of related to your parenting?
Also here's a crazy idea: If you really hate boys that much, maybe you shouldn't try to raise one. Find a couple that can't have children and do an adoption. Some people shouldn't procreate.
Speaking from experience with girls... she's completely clueless.
ReplyDeleteGirls and boys are certainly different -- they each have their own "brand" of sweetness that melts their parents' hearts. Or, at least should.
Both are probably going to attack their siblings with sticks (or books!), unwittingly cause the death of small creatures, and be obsessed with toilets for a spell.
I see she's got a small girl already... one yet too young to exhibit most of those traits she's assigned to "males only". Soon... very soon. And just wait 'til her sweet little girl has a little brother to train!