Please teach your daughters to like boys. This is not the time to talk about "my body is my own." Two unrelated lessons!!
I'm heartbroken by my sons simply wanting to play with a girl only to hear that she runs away from him or thinks he's chasing after her all the time to do something weird to her. Teaching girls that boys only want to kiss or that boys are made of snakes and snails or that boys are nothing but trouble is going to backfire on us later, because it's not right! Is it a parenting cop-out to help teen girls to appreciate abstinence? Aren't there better ways parents can get that message across than depriving girls (not even teenaged) of years of an entire gender of meaningful friends?
I'm doing double duty to instill a sense of self worth into them that will help them succeed in the world. I don't need grownups making life harder for them.
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Shame on those girls and their parents! My girls LOVE your boys. I LOVE your boys! When I was a kid I was one of two girls in the neighborhood. All the rest were boys. I loved playing with them. They had such great adventures and such. I played with the girl once. She was so boring. She only wanted to play with dolls. She never played with the neighborhood gang. I think mixed groups of girls and boys are the best. Keeps them all more level. Girls get too girly when they are alone, and boys get too rowdy when they are alone.
~Amie Stewart
Maybe this is a comment in regard to girls that are a little more mature, but perhaps it's for the best that our boys not associate with girls (or their families) that are that short-sighted that they'll write off a whole gender.
Alrighty, I just sat my girls down and told them to like boys.
They were most happy to oblige.
I said, and when Joel comes up to you, he doesn't want to kiss you, he just wants to be friends, so stop running away!
They said I was right, and they should always listen to my advice.
Seriously though, I think it depends on the kid. Some girls can handle it, especially those raised with brothers, and others (who are taught that boys have cooties) cannot. He just hasn't found the right girl yet. He will.
my girls will play with your boys! they may even provide them with choice vocabulary like pee, poop, weiner....all fantastic words they choose to use mostly with their boy-friends!
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