Boys and girls and closed doors.
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Comments (10)Age about six, and the girl next door that I played doctor with. She moved, broke my heart, and then I fell in love with the girl a few doors down the street, about 10 years older than me. :-) Then after she rejected me I fell in love with Charlotte, about 9 then, and she lived a couple miles away. I snuck over to see her one day, hiding in the corn field. A big booom rang out, the dried corn around me wavered from the shotgun pellets. I took off, running so fast I lost my shoes. Field was more cockleburrs than corn, when I got to the road, I was wearing cockleburr shoes! Fifty years later, I think I've still got them jagged cockleburr needles in my feet....See MoreBoy-girl sleepover?
Comments (8)The problem is this--IF you allow boy/girl sleepovers at this age, because they're still too young for it to mean anything, how do you then change the rules when your child is older. I believe VERY strongly that as parents, if we're going to do our job as effectively as possible, we have to, from the start, set the rules and live by a good example. For instance, when my dd was still in a baby carriage, if I were visiting someone directly across the street from me, I would NOT just dash across (middle of the block), but I'd go 3 doors down, to the corner, and cross properly. They learn from day one. Look, if you'll allow boy/girl sleepovers when she's 13-16-18, then there's nothing wrong with it now. If, however, that's not something you want her doing as a teen, don't make your job of parenting any more difficult than it needs be--don't allow them now. That saves you having to answer, "but you always USED to let Tommy sleep over"....See MoreBoy/ Girl Baby Bedding - link
Comments (3)ttod- This is the one area that I love...baby rooms. Gorgeous bedding! My inital reaction is that it reminds me of my Vera Bradley bags. So yes, I think the brown and teal colors would go for a little girl. It has a feminine ruffle on the bototm and the paisiley is very whimsical looking can give the room a cottage feel. I think it would be great, outside from the tradtional pink or purple baby girl BR. For a little boy...I would maybe play up the choc. brown. Maybe do dk. brown drapery panels and a choc. brown carpet....if it is a girl I would play up the white/acqua...this may too much, but for a little girl white bead board on the wall would be awesome. This is making double guess what I just did for my baby's nursey! Good luck, keep us updated....See More'Boy books' vs 'Girl books'
Comments (44)Russ, I think men can write "girl books." Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar is very much a girl book, I think. While I know they are not great literature, a number of Gothic suspense novels have been written by male writers under feminine pseudonyms -- I guess the thinking of the publishers was women prefer to read Gothics by what they think are women writers, which I think in the case of most female readers is bosh. A number of female writers have written quite effectively in the traditionally male bastion of war stories. Olivia Manning's recounting of the Battle of El Alamein in The Levant Trilogy is every bit as good as any male writer's, and Pat Barker's The Regeneration Trilogy is much lauded by both male and female readers. However, whatever the inroads female writers have made, I'm afraid that there's a certain segment of male readers who will pass over their books simply because they are females. An androgynous name, such as Barker's, has probably pulled in some unsuspecting male readers. As for the classics you mentioned, Russ: Tolstoy's and Flaubert's books -- even when their protagonists are women -- are more likely to be read by men than Jane Austen's novels are. Anyanka has already talked above about this disinclination of boys and men. I know present male company is excepted, but it's hard to say it's untrue of male readers in general....See Morenatureperson
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