"Train your sons like you train your dogs"

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-01-26 06:37

Article here. Excerpt:

'And as a MOB - Mother of Boys - she has come to the conclusion that bringing up boys "is like dealing with dogs".

While males, or FOB (Fathers of Boys), may initially take offence at the analogy, her reasoning does, perhaps, make more than a little sense.

Evans, a mother of three boys aged seven, nine and 10, explains that 'boy pups' need feeding at least three times a day, a tree or a toilet to mark his territory, clear commands of no more than one syllable such as 'Stop!' or 'No!', love which may be shown in manic displays of tummy tickling, and most importantly, to go out to let off steam, twice a day, every day.
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But Evans, like most MOBs, weathers the violent boy storms, and concludes she wouldn't have it any other way.

She points out that one of the many reasons why being a MOB is great is that boys' needs are simple: "Exercise, discipline, lunacy and love.

"Oh, and a never-ending supply of Scooby snacks."'

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If this woman would give up the "dog" bit, her advice isn't so bad, especially her advice to let boys let off steam. Boys are highly energetic and don't like sitting around as much as girls appear to. As it is, she just sounds condescending.

Today's female teachers have replaced recess with Ritalin. But we can't turn boys into men using Ritalin. For that boys need the one thing (a lot of) women don't think boys need: a father.

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Submitted by el cid on Sun, 2013-01-27 04:18