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By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:14:32 +0000

My niece Ashley will be one in just under a month, and she is a daredevil!! She loves being tossed around, flipped, flopped and almost dropped. She thinks bodily noises are a riot, laughs like mad when someone gets hurts, and has a mean ass temper. All babies are different, and not just by gender.

By: Rogue

Rogue — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:26:22 +0000

“I was put on birth control at the age of 9″ Whoa what? 9?? A dr. actually prescribed them??? Im assuming you had your period very early or you meant 19.

By: Kiesha

Kiesha — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Boys are definately raised differently. I remember my uncle one telling my brother to stop crying because men didn’t cry. “Men” might not cry, but little boys who scrap their knees do. I never got this. My own mother does it. My brothers are 16/15 and they get away with a lot of stuff. Her response is, because they are boys. My response, that’s crap woman. As far as the sex in the house goes, that’s one rule that’s applied to all of us. As far as the leeway goes, again I don’t have children, but I’m the oldest child/grandchild on both sides of my family. I’ve helped raise a lot of kids. I try my best to treat them all equally. However, I am over protective of my sister. Mainly because I was raped/molested as a child, and I’m terrified it could happen to her. It doesn’t help that I looked at that watchdog website and say how many sex offenders lived around us. She immediately got a cell phone with emergency numbers programed in, a very large Disney princess key to differentiate between the front/back door key, our brothers walking her to the bus stop, and a big ass dog that’s crazy about her. Can’t really say too much about how I treated my brothers, because I was 8/9 when they were born. I treated them like all older siblings treat younger siblings. I was 16 when my sister was born, she was my “child”.

By: Titus Battle

Titus Battle — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:28:06 +0000

I think it is absolutely o.k. to raise boys and girls a bit differently. Raise the boy to be a boy and the girl to be a girl. Have you noticed that we are different completely other than the fact that we are human. One makes the baby and the other carrys the baby.

I have two sons and I have raised them differently from my daughters. their is nothing like a man being a real man and a woman being a woman. The only way to insure these great qualities is to raise each according to his or her sex.

Of course academically there is no limits and no limits on career. But without listing the differences, boys are different from girls and ya best to raise your boy to be a man and the girl to be a lady. Peace. Great Job Nina…Peace…

By: Heather W

Heather W — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:17:53 +0000

I still can’t get past the fact that Kali doesn’t get sleep-overs.

By: Alegra

Alegra — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:15:33 +0000

I did the same. In fact, I used to say, “If I could be guaranteed they would all come out like Dan, I would have a whole city of children.”

So far, Sol is definitely a little Dan clone. Amen for that.

By: KeMari

KeMari — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:41:22 +0000

^^birthday partY with a Y. My bad.

By: KeMari

KeMari — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:39:51 +0000

I’m guilty of this. On a small scale, but I am still guilty of it. I have told both of my children about the dangers of things like molestation, rape, etc. But I stress it more with my daughter. I am a little more strict with her about playing outside, walking somewhere by herself, etc. But that actually stems mostly from her being a klutz and sort of careless than from me being more worried about her. I am, however, more worried about her. She is a social butterfly, is nice to everyone and wants EVERYONE to like her. If a child molester really wanted to get my daughter to get in his car, all he’d have to do is tell her, “if you don’t get in, I won’t like you” and sure enough, her ass would follow just to make him (or her) like her again.

You make an excellent point here, especially nowadays, with the women teachers and leaders molesting younger boys more and more, although, I don’t think that is molesting for the most part, at least not the sex with the teachers thing, because young boys are made to idolize the ‘cougar relationship’ and more than likely those young boys go into that sexual relationship with said teacher thinking, ‘damn, i’m so fly i got a teacher to do me.’ Young girls sometimes aren’t any better. It has been splashed all over the media about the glorification of the neo-tramp fashion craze ala Paris, Britney and the like.

It’s hard as hell to grow up in this day and age and keep any kind of purity or innocence. But I’m damn sure going to try to do it for my kids.

As for the sex in the house, I’m on the fence about that. I had a mother that didn’t really care one way or the other all the bad things I could do as a teenager, and that took away the fun so I never really did them. I was given an underage drinking 16th birthday part, as well as an 18th, while me and my friends were left alone both times. I was allowed to drive a car from Virginia to Maryland on the highways, even though I had no license, and I was put on birth control at the age of 9. All of that led to me barely ever drinking, never doing drugs or smoking, staying away from sex for the most part until I was 17/18 and basically being a good kid. I guess that whole ‘do it in my house so I can supervise thing’ works for some, and not for others. I suppose I’ll find out when the time comes. But I am absolutely against ‘abstinence’ as the only means of educating kids about sex. It’s ridiculous to think kids won’t try stuff, no matter how well you teach them. I’d rather be prepared and safe than not at all.