Boys, I have them.

[introducingyael]

It occasionally occurs to me that I am not the best "boy mom," ever.  I imagine this would be less apparant if Moo weren't so typically masculine in his play style and I hadn't been such a girly girl.  Moo LOVES vehicles and robots and pirates and LOTS AND LOTS of fighting.  He uses play to create and resolve conflicts in safely violent

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You are such a sweetheart!

[ewigweibliche]

I can relate to this so much right now! I'm actually quite physically aggressive myself, but now that I've got a 3 month old who wants to be in arms or is napping, being LOUD and ACTIVE is so much harder. And yeah, trying to fit in our own exciting projects is challenge too.

[netiimvzaviyos]

>> I can just hope that on some level he gets it. That it's not a rejection of him, but that under all that Mommy stuff there's a person with her own stuff and that stuff is kind of big right now.

This this this. This is where my relationship with my daughter is right now.

[annamatic]

Same here with us and Miles. YES.

[nobutora]

I'm a bit the opposite- it's easy for me to run around and wrestle with Shmuel, but Chana likes to play in a different way, which is not so easy for me.

[proudestmom]

I can so relate. I just had my 4th boy and told my husband that had you asked me what i pictured my family loooking like when i was a girl, i would have told you a bunch of neat girls in pink frilly dresses, frilly socks, matching hair ribbons and pink patten leather shoes. fine, some boys in there too, but yaknow. and i am a mother of dirty untucked boys. the minute after their bath, they are covered in who knows what all over again. and yeah, i can relate to cars...

[proudestmom]

I have to add, I have no complaints, I LOVE my boys and wouldn't give them up for ANYTHING. Just not the way I pictured my family (what do we know anyway...)