Kids Are Weird
I think it is thoroughly documented that I exist in a world filled with glitter and sparkle, dresses and cute shoes, hair accessories and dolls, and OMG IT IS SO FREAKIN' GIRLIE AROUND HERE.
It's fine. Really. I just have no clue what it's like to walk through a room without getting attacked by glitter. That's all.
I think it's that total and complete immersion in Alexis' Land of Pink that made being surrounded by hundreds of little boys so ... jarring. It was Kids Day at the Penguins game that I went to this past weekend, which means there were dozens of little kid hockey teams in attendance.
Dozens of little boys.
So, I know what little girls do when they want attention. They bat their eyelashes or scream like crazy or just say MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM. Not all methods work, but that seems to be the three things Alexis and her friends go to when they want to convey LOOK AT ME.
What they don't do is make themselves look dumb. I'm absolutely certain there are girls who do, but those girls are outside of my Land of Pink.
Guess what dozens of little boys do when they REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to be on the jumbotron? THEY LOOK DUMB. It took one kid getting on the screen with a popcorn bucket on his head for dozens of kids to put popcorn buckets on their heads. It took one kid taking his shirt off and whirling it like a Terrible Towel for dozens of kids to take of their shirts and whip them like Terrible Towels. It took one kid dancing like a fool for dozens of kids to start dancing like fools.
But only the boys.
The girls who were in attendance seemed to be content with yelling really loud.
Just the boys went for goofy as a way to get attention.
Which left me wondering, is that what it's like parenting a boy? Do you end up constantly rolling your eyes at the goofy? Or do boys only try to out-dumb each other when they gather en masse? Or do girls do it as well and I have just managed to avoid seeing it so far?
Kids are weird.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Reader Comments (7)
I have one of each and have rolled my eyes at the dumb goofy behavior plenty of times for both of them, but more so with the boy - even when he is the only one. He is a wild-child, dare-devil kind of crazy that my daughter never was. I don't think you can generalize though because there is always one that does the exact opposite.
Boys are just plain goofy. I have 2 of them. They are strange, wacky, and they love to wrestle! I remember when my boys first started doing the wrestling thing, I got sooo nervous. My husband - with 4 brothers - just looked at me and said, "Honey, that's what boys do." Ahhhhh.... Kids are so weird.
I have two boys. One is not your typical boy. He's very laid-back and quiet and not into a lot of silliness. Now, my youngest? Oh, yeah. He's balls-to-the-wall idiot sometimes.
Boys are weirdos. God, I love them.
Boys are loud and goofy, even when they're not in a group. I thought it was just my kids that were that way, but no, I've found it's pretty standard among their friends. As far as parenting boys, as long as you agree that farts and balls are hilarious, you will do fine.
At least in my house, my boy will act dumb with the masses AKA his cousin, because when he is by himself he is not as wild.
That's my life. It's buckets on heads, shirts in the air, funny faces, fart jokes, PENIS JOKES, goofy dances, ALL DAY LONG.
boys have weird nicknames, too: stinky, booger, rat, etc.