Maternal Dominance Hypothesis and Priviledged Daughter Hypothesis

[Throwaway_panther]

So interesting! This makes me believe even more that diet is big. According to this I'm definitely a typical girl mom. Even down to messaging Atomic. So many times I've thought about posting in my coaching forum and then I think "no, I'm not going to bother her with that, it's not important". Makes me hopeful that I can indeed conceive a girl with a change in diet.
I have to say, I just love all the information on this site. It is all just so fascinating.

I am so outrageously a "boy mom" and am carrying a girl, I am super convinced it's diet lol. My boy mom tendencies are what carried into my anxiety and control over food and exercise! Heck, I'm on here as often as I am while pregnant with a non-sway baby because I'm that much of a self control freak

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[atomic sagebrush]

This is/was me...exactly. I am naturally all or nothing and if I can't do something perfectly I won't do it at all so mostly I just fail these days. But I have made progress with 'acceptance' (of myself and my failures) and that alone is a huge personality change for me. I had a lot of 'help' (tragedies) via God/the universe so I obviously really needed to learn that lesson. Still have a loooooong way to go though!

Somehow I missed a whole page of replies here, sorry ladies.

Beyond failing, succeeding at something (imperfectly) is also very informative. I could NOT EVER EVER EVER have done this job that I do here 10 or 20 years ago. I was too much of a perfectionist. I would have been doing rough drafts of my every response to you guys. I would have been so terrified that I might let people down or annoy someone or fail to achieve 100% results that I would never have started answering posts back on IG. I would have been so afraid of failure/disapproval that even as I figured it all out I would not have mentioned it to anyone else. But after a while I sort of slowly learned that my successes were among my most imperfect endeavors and my most perfect notions died on the table because my vision was always so grand compared to my capabilities. :/ It was only after a lot of successful failures (where I fell far short of the bar that I had set for myself but everything magically worked out anyway) that I could have ever come to a place in time where I could do something like this.

[BunnyLove]

I...LOVE...THIS!! So, so, sooooo GOOD!! I'm laughing so hard right now at my Martha tendencies! You hit it SPOT ON! So great!

[atomic sagebrush]

bump

[Greydore]

I took this and it said I have 85% chance of having a girl. I've always thought of my personality as a mix of boy and girl mom. I have two boys, so this wasn't quite accurate for me.

[atomic sagebrush]

just to clarify, I do not support the online test as being in any way accurate.

[Pokster]

No wonder I'm a boy mom!!! Control freak to a tee! And I feel like I HAVE to do everything! The funny thing is in most aspects of my life I'm pretty laid back/go with the flow. But when it comes to household stuff and taking care of the kids I'm a huge control freak. Mostly because my husband doesn't care if the house is messy, kids are still up at 10, dinner isn't made and it's 7:30 so I feel like I have to make up for it. This is an eye opening essay!


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[atomic sagebrush]

bumping, added new essay

[Mum4life]

Well no wonder I'm a mum of 4 boys! �� I am a control freak, obsessive about things and constantly think about it.

[trifecta]

The vicious circle is cruel: you get a couple of boys in part because you have a tendency to obsess, and then you obsess hard about getting the girl.

I have no doubt that nature has its historical reasons for giving boys to women like me but I think in this day and age I'm less suited to raising boys because of my perfectionism/need for control. I would love to be able to be a relaxed parent and ignore the horseplay, vulgarity, etc. but it really bothers me. Maybe I would have been swell at raising cave boys but I have breakable things in my house.