Boys and girls...

A very, very silly boy said something to me yesterday that really irked me..."Stay-at-home Mums do not work for a living" Well, he obviously has never been a stay at home Mum!

A friend of mine offered a solution to this long held myth; what if all stay at home Mums just get up in the morning and rotate one house over? Would they then be "working for a living" as they are doing the job of some other mother? We could go as far as paying the mother that is looking after our kids exactly what the mother whose kids we're watching pays us and then all of society will finally sit back and say that being a Mum merits the "working for a living" label.

There...got that off my chest!

I also learned yesterday that boys and girls are all recognized as XX chromosomes until the foetus is eight weeks old. At eight weeks boys obtain the Y chromosome and drop the double X becoming XY. At this time boy's brains are bathed in testosterone and the bridge that attaches the right side of the brain to the left side of the brain is very near destroyed. This bridge is called the corpus callosum and transfers information back and forth from either side of the brain.

This transfer of information is what provokes emotions and communicability in the brain. Of course, some boys brains are bathed more than others. Once outside the womb between 6 months and 30 months girls brains are bathed in estrogen reinforcing the strength of the emotional bridge. Then it happens all over again in the teenage years.

There! Solved it!

The reason why some boys with testosterone drowned brains say really stupid things to girls like "stay-at-home Mums don't work for a living" is that one side of their brain is not talking to the other!

I wonder if that's also why boys need to be told everything in a step-by-step method...

If I used to tell my son (when he was a wee one) to take a shower and get in to his pyjamas, without remembering to add in that he needed to dry himself, he would squeeze his soaking wet body into his PJs and look at me with a look of bewilderment when I pulled out a handful of my hair.

Testosterone has an awful lot to answer for!