So cross with myself

[atomic sagebrush]

And to top it all off, we were doing the school run this morning and dropped our eldest son at his school and there was a car in front of us that a girl got out of. Her mum got out too and the girl gave her mum a kiss and hug goodbye and then they were chatting, she got her school bag out of the car and then gave her mum another hug and said I love you mum. Our son, jumped out of the car and I said where is my kiss goodbye. He looked at me like I was mad and walked off.

We then dropped our second eldest at school, he said goodbye to his brothers, and I said "where's my goodbye and kiss" and he looked at me and said "I gotta go". I burst into tears and said to my husband "I need a daughter!"

I would never in a million years have given my mom a kiss when I was school age and my MIL, who actually does have a daughter, has often remarked with jealousy about how affectionate my sons were with hugging and kissing when her son and daughter weren't that way at all. so I'm not sure that it necessarily comes down to gender on that. Sometimes I think we focus everything in terms of gender when really it's just that some kids do X,Y,Z and others don't.

[Rosie85]

I agree with the kisses thing. It totally depends on the kid and not the gender!! Also many older school aged kids will avoid it no matter how affectionate they are before or at home...at school or in public it's just not a "cool" thing to do.

[Adia]

I'm making small changes to my diet ATM but from June I'll be following a HE that like Adia is tailored to me by me. I'm struggling with full-fat milk but that's because its more filling and I'm worried about putting on too much weight.
I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Good luck for your sway. You can have my pink baby dust xx

Dreaming....I can't tolerate milk so I eat I small full fat yogurt a day. Recently I found a full fat Bulgarian yogurt that is fantastic!
One a day is still something. I don't drink milk at all anymore. I usually dump the yogurt in my smoothie with spinach , strawberries & a few other thing & drink my cares away! good luck!

[dreaminginblue]

Thanks ladies, tbh, I've weighed myself since and have actually lost weight!?!
Wanted to comment about one gender being more affectionate than the other. I don't know where I stand with this but both my girls I have to ask for kisses most of the time and I see boys at DD1's school clinging to their mothers yet DD1 asked us, strike that told us to go on her first day at preschool!!! I was devastated! And it looks like DD2 will be same. Its lush having confident girls but it still makes me wonder if a boy would be same or clingy (wonder - worry, pick one)