Is Raising Boys Harder Than Girls?

"Both were the only boys in the family and were spoiled rotten. I think boys should be raised with the view towards them one day growing up to be strong men." I guess I see different as far as that goes...I have a son and a daughter and both are raised and have always been raised to just be themselves...if that means my son is passive and gentle (which he is) and my daughter is a tomboy (which she is) then so be it....Are boys harder to raise than girls? No not at all....at least not in my opinion....I think kids are both easy but both are hard at the same time....

I don't have my own children but I have helped raise both of my younger brothers, my neice and nephew and over 30 foster kids so based on that I'd say it's really about the same. The biggest difference is that a girl will sometimes turn on the waterworks in order to get sympathy if she gets in trouble. Also for me I had more problems with the way the girls dressed then how the boys did. But then the boys were worse at keeping their rooms clean and picking up after themselves. I think alot of it depends on the parent and how the children are raised. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

I have 2 of each. I was a single-parent. Not an easy task to do. Truly I don't believe that either is easier or harder. It is equal in my book.

I can only go by my own experience, I have a boy and girl and the boy is definantly been better..He is an angel...But whats to say what happens when he gets a little older.(he's only 1)...lol

I am raising a 13 year old grandson and he gives me less trouble than my daughters did at the same age. Maybe I have learned with experience.

I also think like you. I do not have any kid yet but I like girls and i think girls are more obedient and considerate, more close to parents and affectionate. I like to have a girl but you know its not in our hand, so i am ready for anything but I think really girls are more easy than boys. I was easier than my brother, haha

One can really tell the difference between boys and girls when one raises both of them. I find girls easier, as they are usually very helpful and creative, although I find boys easier to get along with, but forget about them helping around, as they are always far away, gone, thinking about better things like dinosaurs, planets and space!

having had both I can say it was much easier to raise up my son - he is gentler, more compassionate, more eager to do a task he is given, less likely to mouth back and has only lied to me once, that was when he was 8 and he was so tormented by it that he quickly confessed his lie. of course this could just be my son's remarkable personality and not the fact that he is a boy and the others are girls.

Well we all have our own experiences and opinions honey but I personally believe that girls are far harder to raise than boys - or at least that has been my experience - and what I have seen in my close family relations cases too! I also believe that all children are different - just because they are boys does not mean they have to be raised as strong or masculine. The best way I can think of is to make sure they are given love and confidence and space to be themselves. xxxx

They are both challenging in their own ways. I thought that boys were hard. I had 3 boys that were 2 yrs apart. They would wrestle and run and toss balls and never sit still. They couldn't go past each other without jumping or tackling the other. Then 6 yrs later I had a girl. She was so much easier when she was a toddler, but once she hit school age everything changed. I swear that she gets pms now and she is only 7! She has attitude and a sassyness that my boys never had. Looking back, I think my boys were much easier than my daughter.

I have raised 4 girls and I loved it until they hit teens and then I thought...hmmm boys must be so much easier. I have one nephew and one grandson. I found my nephew to be more difficult when he was young in comparison to my girls but when he was a teen, I found him so much easier to relate to. My girls now grown....would not trade the experience for the world but if you'd asked me a couple of years ago, I'd have told you that daughters are the worst! My daughters and i are tight. My nephew is spoiled and I agree with you missed out on life lessons. I think being the "boy in the family" we all treated him as a "prince". My girls also are very strong and as much as I love my nephew, I would not want to see my girls hooked up with someone like him. He is a good kid but he is so spoiled. I'm not sure this is a gender issue but more circumstance. A girl being raised in an all boy family is i'm sure apt to be just as spoiled.

I dont know when its mixed (as in having boy and a girl), but I have noticed that when its just a girl (one child) parents seem to manage the child easier. I have a boy (only child) and my god is he a heand full and I also see it with most of my friends as well. aslo when I had my son everyone said to me oh you will have your heands full. This is my opinion of how I have noticed things around me so please plese plese do not take it to heart or too seriously.

yes very difficult. my son has become a loud speaker!hs mother has to engage him in sledging most of the time to set things right very hard he is only 13.though soft and outspoken he manages to fight it out word for word i am awestruck sometimes by his attitude. girls are very easy to rear! take car dear

I only have one girl but I have talked to friends who have boys. It seems like they both have their challenges. There is definitely a difference between them though.

Raising boys is just as hard as raising girls, there is no difference.

I don't know if boys are harder to raise than girls as I don't have any daughters to compare my 2 sons with. My mom had two girls (my sister and myself). She always said that girls were easier. She used to baby sit my older cousins when they were little (boys and girls) as well as babysat other various children and she always said the same thing, that girls are easier. I personally think it depends on the child, not the gender that they are.

each child is different. some girls are easy, some girls are hard. same with boys. some are easy while others are hard. i think this is a horrible generalization in our society separating the child because of their gender. a child is not hard to raise because they are one gender or another. they are hard to raise because you as a parent want to do what is right by that child but that child doesn't always fit the parents mold, so the child will not be easy to deal with in that area of his or her life. the important thing is that the child is raised. so many children these days aren't even raised by their parents. the parents just tell the child what to do and expect it done or they punish. that's not what raising a child is about.

hi worldwise1. i never raise a girl but i do have a boy and he is only three years old. it is quite tough raising him because most of the time is has a lot of energy and over active. but through my observation to my nephews and nieces, girl is a lot easier to handle rather than the boys. and i did observe at my son's school, there are few girls that hard to handle. for me, the attitude and the personalities of the child build up by their parents. the way we raise them....

I don't know yet since mine are still 3 and 1,5 years old now. At this time they have the same thing in common, asking a lot of attention from me and my husband.

Boys should be handled more carefully than girls. Girls will always feel free to tell anything personal to parents and grandparents, but boys usually do not do that. they build a gap when they are teenagers, they stop discussing things because of their shyness. it is our duty to treat them as a friend and discuss with them everything, petting a child will spoil them more. pet them while u have to do that and be strict to them when a situation comes like that, try telling them that if they are not going to be good, they will never succeed in life and will not get a good name.