Is it OK for my boy to be a boy and for a little girl to be a girl?

Well, this is a long name for a short article, but I just really wanted to put my 2 cents.

This article here talks about fuss some moms created, signing petitions against pink and purple Lego game "Friends", which is clearly targeting little girls. And its not that I care about it or those moms, I just do have an opinion on this matter.

I think there is nothing wrong with a girl liking pink dolls and flowers, yellow butterflies and fluffy doggies and teddy bears. Mind you, I don't see anything wrong with the same girl enjoying a car toy, but it has to be by choice, not because other things are not available to her.

 Same goes for the boys. I noticed how my son, who is not even 2 years old yet, goes crazy about trucks, diggers, cars, buses, airplanes and power tools. I didn't teach him that, and he didn't learn to like it from TV or an in-store ad. That's just him. He likes these big machines and powerful tools, and doesn't really give a damn about fluffy toys and flowers.

What I'm trying to say, is the kids are born like this. Its a part of nature. Naturally, a little girl will like to take care of a doll, will feed it and pat its back, the same way her mom does it to her. Why would one want to take this girly girl and turn her into a tom boy? Who will she turn into, when she grows up, if we don't nurture her instincts of being a caring woman, and will put in her mind artificially, that girls and boys are the same, NO DIFFERENCE?

I'm expecting all of you hate me right now. Yes, I do think there is a difference between boys and girls, and men and women! Not the kind of difference, that allows some get paid more for the same work done, but the kind of difference, that sparks love and desires, the very emotions, that inspired generations of poets, composers, artists, builders to create beautiful things, works of art, worthy of keeping on Earth for hundreds of years. (Yes, some of them were gay, but that's besides the point).

Such aggressiveness in keeping boys and girls "the same" to my opinion, in the long run separates the society and promotes "aloneness" and isolation, because genders are complete by themselves, and are not looking for "the other half" any more. So the society will gradually just die out.

Mind you, I am not a sociologist, I don't have any research studies data handy, and to have scientific proof is not my point. All I'm trying to do here, is to express my feelings and thoughts about such trend among some moms and also media, that is trying to please everyone, and is so afraid now to come out and say "men and women are different".

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Nanny Robina and CityLine!

A little while ago we had the pleasure of meeting Nanny Robina! An expert on everything parenting! Of course I jumped at the opportunity to ask her what I could about getting baby girl to sleep through the night because whatever I was doing was not working! I had explained to her that I was having some real trouble getting her into a good sleep schedule. Please visit my blog to read more about Audri's sleep training.

Nanny suggested the first thing I needed to do was get her into a good routine. Routine is everything for babies! Although we did have a night time routine since the week we brought her home from the hospital, her daytime was a little more staggered. Since getting the day time in place we noticed a big difference in Audrina’s sleeping patterns. She usually only gets up once around 11-12 p.m. for a feeding, then sleeps the rest of the night! Notice I said usually. All of a sudden over the last few days she has been waking up between 2-3 a.m. Some nights she puts herself back to sleep, other night she screams bloody murder until I go in and shush her to sleep. I’m so worried this is going to set her back again and it’s back to no sleep for us all. 

On Wednesday Aud and I went down with Nanny Robina to a taping of CityLine! It was lot’s of fun and a busy morning! It will air on Wednesday August 15th on City Tv at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. tune in as I will ask Nanny Robina why this could be happening! Please tune in to our blog, as Nanny agreed to guest blog for our Goober Gang Mag, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have her give some of her expert advice on parenting!

Madeleine
 

You can read more about Nanny Robina here, or on her website: http://www.nannyrobina.com.

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Nanny Robina for Goober Gang Mag.

ROUTINES:

• Establish a routine as part of your daily pattern of care.
• To a new baby a routine may be more comforting than any single soothing technique.  You need to let your baby know daily what is about to happen
• As soon as you bring your baby home, establish a simple routine, like bathing at the same time each day or Reading the same book, humming the same lullaby.
•  Being able to count on the same things, day in day out is comforting to a new baby.
• At around three months keep the routine and start to introduce a schedule. Babies on a schedule settle far more easy that those that do not have one.
• Your baby will now be ready for a new sleep schedule as they begin to come out and transition from all that sleep that was needed for the first three months of their fastest growing time.

 Once your baby turns three months you may notice a change in their sleep pattern as they take on less sleep.

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