It seems that very little has changed since I was a kid. Boys were stupid then and boys are apparently still very stupid. The youngin's in the third grade and discovering rapidly that boys do things that can't be explained, wouldn't make sense if it could be explained and frankly, probably shouldn't be explained lest it lose all it's questionable charm. If a boy likes a girl, he picks on her and hits her. That confounds her as well it should. I resisted informing her that in the third grade, it's annoying but later in life it's a jail cell and a roomie named Bubba and some interesting night time activity. But other than that slight omission, I most certainly wasn't going to lie to my little girl.
You see, some of the boys in her class are apparently just discovering that if they talk about boobies and pretend that they have boobies, they can embarrass the girls who, at this point in their lives, couldn't care less about boobies. The boys use pencils to pretend they HAVE boobies and they use high voices telling people to LOOK at their boobies and she is at the point where she considers them all to be pointless wastes of good oxygen and far be it for me to inform her otherwise. Sadly, again refusing to mislead her with a lie, I explained to her that with other than a few exceptions, boys don't change much as they get older. Boys, no matter what the age, will always do things girls don't like, appreciate or understand and girls will almost always simply sigh deeply and go along for the ride, resigned to the knowledge that boys are just plain flat out damned stupid.
She thought about it and said "all boys except Daddy, right?"
At which point I lied.
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Lol! Boys are stupid - that's my line. When DD age 13 told me with a little embarrassment that a boy kissed her on the cheeck, and yes, she thought that was a good thing I was pretty taken aback. My baby? Boys & kissing? Even if it was the cheek. After a brief conversation my parting comment to her was "No matter what happens honey, I want you to always remember one thing...boys are stupid".
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