Disclaimer - I hope this does not embarrass you when you grow up, not trying to make fun - just enjoying your childhood :) if it does bother you just forgive your mommy and remember I am sharing it because I think its completely okay to want to be a girl; or to want to be a boy :)
You do hang out with some little boys - Raidon, Aidan, Teja and Vedanth. But you have always preferred hanging out with girls - your favorite friends have been - Chloe, Aaina, Maya, Elise, Charolette and of course Rhea.
And of course when you like them you want to be like them! So for a few days - every morning and every night you would look in the mirror, say "I'm a boy" and cry for about 5 minutes. "Make me a girl". You really cried hard and were very sad about it. I couldn't even laugh about it :p You once also said - next time I will not get a haircut. Then I would get a hanger or a stick or something - and use it as a magic wand around your head - and turn you into a girl :) - that definitely lifted your spirit!
You knew you are a boy; But at home, you always took comfort in calling yourself a girl. I would ask - who is the sweetest boy in the world; and you would say - I am a girl :)
Around now is the time - that you are starting to learn that you are a boy - and the friends that you really like are all girls! Its either that or simply that you find your pajamas really comfortable - and if it were to you - you would probably wear those all the time, everywhere. For some reason - you call your pajamas girl pants. And what pants you are wearing is extremely important to you - probably because you do believe that wearing these pants does make you a girl! This is one area where you definitely would hold your guns as far as possible. We always had to come up with stories and trick you into wearing regular pants or shorts. On some occasions we negotiated and landed on layering your clothes - you wore girl pants inside; and outside you wore boy pants; and sometimes we would let you wear pajamas outdoors also.
We might arrange a nice playdate for you; or come up with some nice class etc - but your top of mind was which pants you will wear. e.g.
Mommy - we are going to a music class (or a soccer class) today! You - yay! Can I wear my girl pants?
You do hang out with some little boys - Raidon, Aidan, Teja and Vedanth. But you have always preferred hanging out with girls - your favorite friends have been - Chloe, Aaina, Maya, Elise, Charolette and of course Rhea.
And of course when you like them you want to be like them! So for a few days - every morning and every night you would look in the mirror, say "I'm a boy" and cry for about 5 minutes. "Make me a girl". You really cried hard and were very sad about it. I couldn't even laugh about it :p You once also said - next time I will not get a haircut. Then I would get a hanger or a stick or something - and use it as a magic wand around your head - and turn you into a girl :) - that definitely lifted your spirit!
You knew you are a boy; But at home, you always took comfort in calling yourself a girl. I would ask - who is the sweetest boy in the world; and you would say - I am a girl :)
Around now is the time - that you are starting to learn that you are a boy - and the friends that you really like are all girls! Its either that or simply that you find your pajamas really comfortable - and if it were to you - you would probably wear those all the time, everywhere. For some reason - you call your pajamas girl pants. And what pants you are wearing is extremely important to you - probably because you do believe that wearing these pants does make you a girl! This is one area where you definitely would hold your guns as far as possible. We always had to come up with stories and trick you into wearing regular pants or shorts. On some occasions we negotiated and landed on layering your clothes - you wore girl pants inside; and outside you wore boy pants; and sometimes we would let you wear pajamas outdoors also.
We might arrange a nice playdate for you; or come up with some nice class etc - but your top of mind was which pants you will wear. e.g.
Mommy - we are going to a music class (or a soccer class) today! You - yay! Can I wear my girl pants?
I had to learn all the names of the pants, shark pant, monkey pant, zero cross pant and sometimes had to take them out from washing machine, as nothing else will do!
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