And there we go, gender issues are already raising their head in the life of our toddler.
Little Miss continually refers to all people as ’she’ or ‘her’ at least about 90% of the time. Occassionally she will get it right and refer to me as a he, although that is about as often as she calls me Mum instead of Dad. Luckily for me I am secure enough in myself for it not to bother me all that much - well apart from the times she tells me I should put on a dress as I would look ‘pretty’.
Actually even that doesn’t worry me because if I was to shave down and put on a dress I am sure I would indeed look quite fetching. But that is a post for a completely different blog.
Tonight she asked me if I was a boy or a girl, to which I told her I was a boy. She considered that for a second looked me up and down and sad:
‘You should be a girl Daddy, then Wife, Usurper, Little Miss and you could all be girls together!!’. I was still contemplating my comeback for that announcement when she followed it up with ‘Yes Daddy, I think you are a girl’
All I could think to say was ‘Only in prison’, but I managed to hold that in and not confuse her even more.
Hilarious!!
I just had to lean back and laugh out loud.
Micah has got this gender thing quite right, and some times he’d just stress it by is grandma a “she”? Is Rocky (our dog) a “he”? etc.
Now Max is also picking this up and will ask:
(Lightning) McQueen - boy?
Sally - girl?
Sometimes there is also the “exercise” of using the term “male” and “female”.
Wait till you get there! Haha..
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Very funny! My toddler son is just starting to learn the difference between boys and girls (parts, or lack thereof). It’s an interesting experience, especially when and where he chooses to discuss it.
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The best thing I have discovered to deal with such situations these days is pretend to be deaf and let Wife explain it all. She did biology at uni, so she can explain everything with great aplomb whereas I still giggle as if I am in high school
I think teenagers shouldn’t be allowed here. They don’t have a clue about life, why are they trying to look smart?