10 Things Not To Say To A Mum Of Boys!
1. Poor mummy having all boys! – This phrase has been said to my children more times than I care to remember……………at supermarket checkouts, in doctors waiting rooms, even by a midwife! Do these people not think that comments such as these may affect my boys?
2. Wow, you have your hands full! – Yes I do but there are only so many times I can smile politely at this comment as if it is the first time I have heard it!
3. Do you have any spaces coming up soon? – I am NOT a frigging child minder!!!!!!
4. You do know that mum’s of boys statistically die younger don’t you? – I kid you not, this was actually the phrase that was shouted out to me as I left a park once. Unable to come back at her with a cutting enough reply (I have always been better with the written word than the verbal word!) I just left the park dumbstruck thinking ‘did I actually just hear that nasty women right?’
5. Are they all yours? – Would I be dragging them all round the supermarket if they weren’t!!!!
6. Are you going to try again to see if you get a girl? – Again, annoying strangers who feel you have the right to question what I intend to do with my womb, I do not need to have a baby girl to feel complete. I have four amazing boys who do that for me just fine!
7. I bet you were scared to try for number 4 knowing that you already had three boys! – Who said anything about trying for number four lady! I tried for my first and then let fate decide whether or not I would be blessed with more. But, if I had ‘tried’ for number four, I would have happily ‘tried’ for another boy as he would have fitted right in (and has fitted right in!)with my other three boys – who incidentally are sitting here next to me hearing your every word!
8. Your husband needs to have the snip! – Um, since when was it the business of a stranger to comment on my husbands anatomy and what he does or does not do with it?!? And the person who said this………………..wait for it…………………a grumpy old git in a doctors surgery whilst my four boys were sitting there perfectly well behaved!
9. Boys are so much easier than girls! – Thanks, I’ll remember that whilst I am clambering up a tree on a rescue mission or breaking up the twentieth play fight of the day whilst your daughters are calmly making up dance routines and trying on each others clothes!
10. You’ve nearly got your own football team there! – Come on people, try to be just a little bit original!
Being a mum of four amazing boys, I have been subjected to all of these ’10 things not to say to a mum of boys!’ Luckily for my boys, they know that they are the best thing that ever happened to me and I wouldn’t change things for the world. 🙂
Photo credit – Rebecca Edmunds
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Love this! My husband is one of four boys born in 1981, 82, 83 and 87. They are the closest siblings I know of and have loved their life together, as I’m sure your boys will too. They’ve gone on to have their own families where all the children are daughters!! So it’s a bit of a culture shock for them!
Oh how lovely! I keep reminding my boys they will be best of friends when they are older when they are in the midst of their ‘play’ fights! 🙂 xxx
Love this, I adore my boys, they are thoughtful caring and complete mummy’s boys, feel blessed x
Ah, what little cuties! As much as my four may drive me crazy they are all lovely and I wouldn’t change them for the world! xxx
ahhhh, the football one gets thrown at me all the time. (Ali, mum of 3 boys)
The football one is definitely the one I hear the most! 🙂 x
The football team got so boring, we just tell people that our four boys are enough to make a boy band. Job done.
I’ll have to steal your line next time! 🙂 xx
I have three boys and live in Germany, but the comments from strangers are the same.
As for them being easier than girls, I am with you on your point. I don’t know any girls that get up to as much nonsense as my boys.
I am totally with you on that one Fionnuala! 🙂 xx
Love this post. The thing about boys is that it’s boisterous play one minute and tender hugs with mummy the next. I love that. x
I was thinking exactly the same thing earlier today as my three youngest took it in turns to climb on my lap for cuddles whilst we watched their big brother do karate. I will always love their lovely hugs 🙂 x
Ha ha ha as a mum of 4 boys (11,9,5,3) I can honestly say I have heard every one of these comments countless times! Why do people assume that the only reason you have 4 is because you were trying for a girl?!? Xxx
I know, people need to be more original don’t they 😉 !!!!
WOW………….. what are the chances that we both have the same name and 4 sons hahaha, although my boys are all older now, so hug them while you can because there comes a day when they are all taller than you and they pull away making it difficult to grab them for a hug, before they run out the door 🙂
Wow, that is amazing! 🙂 I know what you mean, my 8 yr old is already showing signs of towering above me! I really will make the most of those hugs! I will miss them when they are few and far between. xx