Or does it depend on their personality and how they are raised?

I don't know. I think there are just different challenges but both are equally stressful. You have to worry about girls thinking they know everything and with boys its the dangerous things they may get into while hangin out in the streets. I worry about what will I do when my sons get older; especially being young black men. anything can happen.

7e7e7 said:

so boys are...obviously.

i think boys are more active and hyper!

honeypot69 said:

I reckon girls must be, all that manipulation
my boys still wear whatever I choose for them.
Boys are probably more a challenge as kids, but as early teens I would guess girls more difficult.

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Byron said:

Byron said:

LMFAO!!!!!

I have one of each and they are evenly amazing. Sounds pretentious but its just honest!

Doesn't it depend on the kid and how you raise them?

HamsterHuey said:

The ol nature verses nurture question. I think it is very much both, yes.

Girls....I have both and I have to say my daughter is a rather outgoing diva

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Of course, it is. But I think a child benefits from a strict upbringing with loads of love.

my 3 yr old son is just starting to push bounderies with me. is getting very headstrong,. but he is a typical boy & is already eating me out of house & home. if he is stroppy it is usually because he is either hungry or tired.

my daughter is more emotional and is extremly sensitive. she can be a real worrier.

at the moment for me the girl is the harder one.

Not a parent, but from what I know/have seen boys are much easier.

Girls are harder to raise.

From what I know and I have seen with my family and friends, boys are harder to raise. Girls are wonderful. However it really depends on how you raise them and their environment

My guess is individual personality trumps much of what we could say about entire sexes. But from what I've gathered anecdotally through friends, casual personal observation, etc., girls are generally mouthier and faster to develop a calculating (and hard-headed) willfulness; boys are risky, explosive and... well... stupid. Both can be a handful.

Take-home lesson: The perfect child, of course, is the gay child. You get the sensible median of the extremes.











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I couldn't tell you as I have only one daughter.
She's always been headstrong, but in the same token
she's always known right from wrong. She had her
"sassy moments" (just like her Mom ), but I
certainly wouldn't say she was difficult to raise.

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honeypot69 said:

I completely agree with that! I have a daughter and am in constant worry she will get herself in trouble. But working with juvenile offenders I see that really both are just as stressful

2 Girls and 2 Boys raised ( or being ) here

NEITHER are "harder" to raise

All children go through bumps in the road and each one is so very different


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Lammastide said:

darn it none of mine are gay then

I can only compare my daughter to my son..and going by their ages up until now...
And I would have to say boys are harder

IMO it's personality of parent and child that makes the difference. With my two it was different stages, one would be more difficult than the other. Hallelujah, one grown and one nearly grown.

My son who is now 24, was a little brat as a child, but has grown up to be a smart, intelligent, professional. My 3 girls aged 5, 10 and 15, have been a joy thus far with only a small rough patch with my 15 year old. I hope to continue to be so lucky!

They each have their own challenges. Our girls definitely give us different problems than our boy does, but I wouldn't say they give us fewer. Just different.

It all depends on the parent's personality too. I think boys are easier for me to deal with because girls' complicated emotions get on my nerves sometimes. I find it simpler to deal with rough and tumble boys, even the really "bad" ones I used to teach.

ZombieKitten said:

I am bookmarking this for the next woman hating thread since a woman acknowledges the truth!

Stymie said:

Not to mention the added worry about girls being a target for sick depraved men out there in the world.....