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The Differences Between Raising Boys and Raising a Daughter
I was raised to learn to cook, clean the toilets and always be very domesticated. I've tried really hard to raise them exactly the same but she's naturally weirdly more domesticated than they are or wants to do more stuff around the house. There's a hierarchy in there, definitely high up. We spend three hours on a Sunday cleaning - we dust everything top to bottom,. skirting boards, light switches, everybody cleans a bathroom. So the boys can now clean their bathroom, which is great. It's taken me a lot longer than it has with my daughter because she just seems to naturally want to do it. And so what I try not to do is fall into that