Sons vs Daughters

Girls will be girls and boys can be baffling. Ask the moms who struggle to understand them.
any mom who thinks bringing up a boy and a girl is all the same is in for quite a surprise. Whoever said men are from mars and women from venus knew what he was talking about. That's the reason why mothers are often spotted wringing their hands in despair as they try to make sense of what their kids are saying to them, or not saying to them.
I gathered some statements given by different mothers about their children

"I might have scared my son for life", fears Hema. "He was in class I, I have gone to his school and hugged him in front of his friends. Ever since our relationship beyond the four walls of our home has steadily gone downhill."

Priya's experience is a little different. "My daughter was in class I and when I went to meet her teacher, my daughter stood there, arms akimbo and declared "Mama, this is the teacher who is always scolding me. ask her not to. I don't know who was more horrified-the teacher or I," she says.

The difference btween sons and daughters continues to baffle mothers the world over.

Take the mother who went to her son's school to collect his report card. "While my son hung around me shifty eyed sullen and clearly uneasy, the girls in his class seemed to have no problems at all displaying daughterly love. They came arm in arm with their parents and cheerfuly introduced to them to their friends. it caused quite a pang of envy in me.", admits Swati, who is reconciled to having her son treat her like she was invisible in school. "It was not always like that. There was a time when he would get fidgety, nervous, tetchy and even tearfull if I was not in his line of vision. He still gets that way. Only now that is because I am in his line of vision.

"Somebody called and he said it was urgent and you should call back immidiately." that is Kamala's son giving her a message. while she waits expectantly for more information, he goes back to TV indicating the conversation is closed. " I have no name or number of the caller, all I have a growing headache wondering who wanted to talk to me urgently. If my daughter had taken the call, she would have all the details, including the callers lineage, what he had for lunch and his holiday plans. she would have also told him where we keep the family silver!",says Kamala.

But it is also true that her daughter wanted her to participate in a local beauty peagent. "My size, my age and the fact that I would have a hard time launching a paper boat, let alone a thousand ships, had completely escaped her notice. On the other hand when I told my son that he should not hate girls and that he should talk to them-after all, I was a female too- my son's response was 'you are not a female, you are my mother'."

Take that as a rare complement. By now you should know that such statements are better left unexplained. Like that old wise mom said, "The mother-children relationship is a strange and wonderful one, they are STRANGE and we are WONDERFUL."