It is a little known fact that most boys seem to be more active that most girls. If you don’t believe me do a poll on parents of daughters vs sons to find out which they feel overall have the most energy! I am a mother of two boys and one girl, this means I have to find extra energy through out the day. I not only have to keep up with one four year old boy who seems to have energy to stay up running for a week straight, I have two of them and the second one? He is two which means he is just at his prime, ready to climb walls, tress, jump from high tables and chairs, and give his Mama a heart attack!
My sons certainly keep me moving and some days I wish I had a break, not because I don’t love them, I love my children dearly but this Mama doesn’t have that much energy, she needs sleep, preferably 12 hours! I miss those days when I was raising my daughter as a single Mom and she would lay down to sleep with me anytime I was tired. We would go to sleep about 7 or 8pm and wake up about 8am every weekday. On weekends I would curl up for a nap and she would lay beside me falling fast asleep. Miss Ki was always happy to nap with my sister or me if we were tired.
My sons, I am lucky, yes lucky, if they nap at all. The problem is that with Baby K who is now two years old I don’t feel so lucky come bed time if he took a nap longer than 20 minutes! You see since we now live up further out of our old town I try to make it to town once in a while to get things done, that is a short drive maybe 10 minutes, but ends up being about one or two hour trip. The little one falls fast asleep before I am even out of the driveway and sleeps the whole ride. The bad thing? Come bedtime he refuses to sleep, he bounces in his crib, he climbs out of the crib, he yells for me, he laughs, he giggles, he yells to his brother on the other side of the room to play with him. It’s close to a nightmare for this Mom who works from home at night!
Luckily I have patience, energy not so much, but I have patience galore. So with patience comes the ability to be flexible, meaning if Mama doesn’t get her work done at night then Daddy gets kid duty in the morning and I work mornings that next day!
BOYS … I love them but WOW they are so much more different than girls … I think I am going to need another cup of coffee now.
I think you forgot to factor in TOMBOYS and athletic girly girls to this equation LOL I have four girls and one boy and they are all equally active because my oldest daughter loves gymnastics and forces her younger sisters (even my toddler) to be in her “class” when she wants to teach them things so they all stay out in the yard flipping and stretching and bending (thankfully not breaking — yet LOL). My middle child is a girl but is a TOTAL tomboy. She loves playing basketball/football with my son. All my kids are like SUPER active and they are hardly ever inside… I can’t keep up with them. haha
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There is a night and day difference with boys vs girls but I think the rolls reverse when you hit those teenage years. Dating, puberty, the sass, oy! Boys just grunt and eat. lol
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OH my goodness, don’t tell me this! I have one two-year-old girl and a little boy coming in January… Emma is already on her feet nonstop! She’s one of those kids that is too busy to cuddle for more than 2 minutes (5 if I’m REALLY lucky), even when she’s tired. I was hoping this little boy would be the opposite. lol So do I have hope?
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On the plus side, there is much less drama!
They’re definitely full of energy and noise and DIRT!
They are SO different! My daughter is no trouble at all, content to sit and cuddle for hours. The boys, well, my oldest pulled the curtain rod off the wall today trying to swing from the curtains. I love them, but I think they are going to drive me to drink. I guess the girl drama comes in the teenage years.
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So true Brandy! My daughter was a breeze, my boys….not so much.
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I agree with the one who said the tables turn at puberty. LOL. Or sooner. Maybe little girls aren’t normally as active (the norm) but many can be quite sassy and princess-y/diva-ish. Boys kinds of roll with it, I find. So yah, you are running after them, but at least they aren’t telling their friends I am their servant. (That’s what my niece said about her mom – my sister. Ha!)
There are HUGE differences when raising boys and girls – and not just because of gender but character traits. My oldest boy is the cuddle in bed type, which I LOVE. My little one is more of the climbing the fridge kind of kid. (Seriously – I have video of him climbing my fridge.) If I had a girl, I would be happy. But I love the boys too – no matter how exhausted I am at the end of the day. LOL.
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