Bringing up boys and girls

Oh that kind of makes me feel better ( silly I know) but I was always made to feel like a freak at my all girls school . Everyone seemed to know it all whereas my parents forbid me to have sex education lessons . Silly Billy's .

Well while we're on the subject, it was a long time before I realised that the fig leaves on statues were not actually part of their anatomy, but were covering up something else ?

I saw my brother's willy when we were very small but remember thinking, maybe when I was around 10, that I must have imagined it as it seemed so unlikely.

When my DD was a baby, my DS thought that the reason she needed a nappy was that her willy hadn't grown yet.
He was very surprised to learn she wouldn't be getting one.

I grew up in the 50s in what I suppose was an enlightened household. Most of the women in my family worked, my mum, my aunt, my grans. My mum taught both me and my brother to cook. My brother was considered cleverer but probably because he was science and I was history and art. I was encouraged to study and go to college. In fact it was at a women's teacher training college that I first realised some people thought women couldn't do stuff. I remember a friend getting the magazine Spare Rib and telling me about inequality I'm afraid until then I had tended to think I could do anything I wanted. I suppose having children made me even more aware of the difficulties.
I hope my 3 DSs have been brought up to treat women as equals and they can cook and clean, unfortunately their standards are like mine and maybe not as high as they might be.
I do love the fact that my GD can be dressed as a princess in pink one minute and have bruised legs and filthy knees the next because she has been on the adventure playground. I hope she stays like this.

It's a little more controversial, to most people, trisher, if a boy does both those things.

GS was wearing a pair of fairy wings and his underpants last week and playing with his trains

Good on him, trisher!

The constant emphasis on the looks of women nowadays, in particular young women, seems designed to make them feel that they are not good enough as they are.

They are told they have to keep attending to their hair, nails, makeup, body hair, clothes, shoes - all to make themselves acceptable, it not only takes up time and energy, it wears down their self confidence.

Obviously, some attention has to be given to cleanliness and grooming, as men have to do too, but the expectations put on women are ridiculous.