Raising Boys vs Girls? A systematic approach to deciding the easiest.
June 14, 2007
Today, for some reason, I was thinking about a post I read on a blog I that really enjoy (Raising4Boys)
Here’s a quick rundown of the top five reasons why having little boys is better than having little girls:
1. No whining (or less, at least)
2. No pink
3. No ballet
4. No make up
5. No growing up to be teenage daughtersAnd just for the sake of balance, here are five reasons that girls are better than boys:
1. No testosterone - ’nuff said
2. More than just sneakers
3. No Little League
4. No frogs, snails, and puppydog tails
5. No daughter-in-laws
I wanted to expand this into my own version of the list, broken down into two phases: Pre-puberty and Post-puberty.
Since I’m an Engineer, I had to take a “scientific approach” to this.
First, I created categories that worried me (I took a lot from Raising4Boy’s post). Each category has a “maximum worry points”. Those are just abstracted levels of how much I worry about each category.
All I had to do then was to assign points to boys vs girls in each of the two phases and analyze the results.
click on the image above to expand it
From the graph above, we can “Scientifically conclude” that little girls are easier to raise than little boys, but once they reach puberty, daddy’s little girl is “gone” and teen boys are easier to raise.This worries me, because my kids are still toddlers, so I know there’s still a *lot* ahead of me :)
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June 14th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
lol… so true…
June 20th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
[...] Raising Boys vs Girls? A systematic approach to deciding the easiest by J2R @ Journey to Retirement. An *engineering* approach to figure out if boys are easier to raise that girls. Don’t miss the chart in this one. [...]
June 20th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
LOL, this is funny. I must say teenage boys can become harder they tend to get in legal trouble than girls. I personally think to each it’s own.
As a female, when I became a teenager I was not as diffucult, I never went crazy for boys I just wanted to form a business and make money. My interests was saving money and playing in the band. I guess each girl is different.
The chart releys the truth, but each child will know how far to push their parents
June 20th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
0 worry points for the possibility of whiny teenagers? Uh…I’d recalculate.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
I have always said if I could be guaranteed a boy we would have 4 kids instead of our 2 boys
. When they become teenagers, all bets are off. One of my biggest worries during the teen years (and now) concerns driving. This would go for both sexes.
June 24th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
[...] I’m not sure how Journey 2 Retirement could have skipped driving in her list of future worries, but she undertakes to scientifically analyze who is harder to raise - boys or girls. [...]
June 25th, 2007 at 12:50 am
I LOVE that picture!
June 25th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Since I have 2 girls, I’ve always wondered how it would be like to raise boys. Now I know. I’m happy with my girls! hee hee
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June 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
@ threapydoc
I get my pics on iStockPhoto. There are so many awesome pictures there. They’re worth the price.
@ kailani
Unless we go for a third attempt.
And I’ll always wonder what would be like to raise girls
August 5th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
It’s funny that you say with boys, there’s no “No frogs, snails, and puppy dog tails”.
We just had our 8 year old granddaughter visiting from out of state. She spent the good part the the day catching frogs and tadpoles at a local pond.
Then when I took her shopping, and told her I would buy her a toy. She couldn’t decide between a “flywheel” or a remote control truck. After much deliberation, she chose the truck. When asked if she was home sick, she said “Yes, I miss my dog”. (She’s a lot like her mother, who was also a bit of a “tom boy”.)
I remember a saying, that goes something like this…..”with boys, you only have to worry about the boys, and with girls, you only have to worry about the boys”.
How true.
November 13th, 2008 at 1:44 am
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