June 20, 2006
As father of three boys there are a lot of things I don't know about raising girls. Most of what I do know stems only from what I've been exposed to through tv, books, people around me. I hope to have a daughter someday and to prepare, I have made a little compilation of what I have learned so far about raising girls.
The first key difference I've noticed is that girls are supposed to be given free unsupervised access to the internet. Unlike with boys, parents of girls do not need to be invasive on their privacy. No need to monitor which websites they are viewing, or what information they willingly dispence.
I will teach my boys not to meet alone with people they don't really know and especially not to get into their cars. I was amazed again to find out that this isn't the case with girls. Girls can freely meet with whomever they want to at any time and the parents of those girls must be sure to act like they have no idea what's going on.
I suppose it times like these that I'm thankful to have so many resources available to me for learning as a parent. Someday, when I have a daughter, I may have made some uncorrectable mistakes. Mistakes that would have undoubtedly branded me as Bad Parent.
1 comment:
Congratulations!
You're one of those rare individuals who's daring enough to admit the existence of parental incompetence. Now, if only we can convince 535 members of congress to do the same thing.
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