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What is truly upsetting me in gender reveal parties (which also should actually be named sex reveal parties as this is what they are) is that people are making a big deal about having a boy or a girl. Why does it matter? Get a puppy if you want to choose. Boys and girls should be loved equally. I understand that we can have preferences as in "oh after three boys it would be nice to have a girl" but having dozens of relatives gathered just to see your reaction when you find out if you are having a boy or a girl is seriously disturbing. And I am not even mentioning the death that occurred, the wild fires, the mess simply left behind...
The one where the mother flipped a table and started kicking her gifts when she found out she was having a girl and the father that threw a hissy on camera after finding out her was having a girl have already condemned their child to decades of therapy.
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I much preferred the days we had when I had ours.. finding out the sex of the baby the day they were born.. it didn't matter what you hoped for as the moment you hold your baby, you know that he or she is exactly who you wanted.
That's how ours was. Do you want to know what you are having? Yes. It's a boy. We just told people if they asked us. No reveal party or any of that. Though I don't think reveal parties are such a big thing in the UK
Not yet, thankfully.
Load More Replies... I don't understand our obsession with a baby's gender. Why does anyone except the parents and doctor even need to know what gender/sex the baby is? So many people say: "To know how to treat him/her. Or to know whether the kid is going to like cars and dinosaurs or barbies and pink things." How about we just treat them equally and just wait to see how the child's interests develop and discover what this individual actually likes? Instead of assuming that he's gonna prefer cars, because he might actually prefer barbies, or he might love both. Why not give him the freedom to discover for himself what he likes, instead of making assumptions?
I kept having "gender unreveal" parties like this. "Please don't tell me the sex! No, honestly, we don't want to know until the baby arrives. No, really. Please just tell me if the baby is healthy." Ad inifinitum. Who on earth cares what sex the baby is? And "gender reveal" is a misnomer anyway because gender only gets figured out later!
Extravagant gender reveal parties are stupid, wasteful, and possibly dangerous. Simple ones where everyone bites into a cupcake and sees pink or blue filling is an excuse to eat cupcakes.
Not exactly a party but I doubt your whole family would fit in ultrasound room. Why, do we really need a party for that. Pretty sure our parents didn't have one. Good news all people involved survived.
They had gender revelation when I was younger. They called it childbirth.
My daughter had a gender reveal, they already knew but they just wanted a little party and to get some diapers. They had a survivor themed party, and they had team girl and team boy, and we did challenges so everyone at the party was involved, and it was a lot of un, and no one got hurt and nothing damaged. It was just a way for family and friends to gather and celebrate them having a baby, and they just happened to let everyone know they were having a boy
I have 6 kids and we waited to find out what we had til delivery with all of them. I have 5 boys and girl. There was never a medical reason to find out before birth, so why go through unnecessary tests.
Yes. Or maybe waiting at the delivery room with your partner and doctor and when the baby emerges the doctor tells you what it is? I know at the "gender" ultrasounds I had with my kids, we were far more concerned about the health and wellbeing of the baby than knowing what gender it was. That's what those ultrasounds are for. To see if the baby is developing normally. We didn't find out either our babies sex until they were born.
I have no problem with these parties. I'm not a parent and never will be but I can understand the excitement of the surprise. As long as the reveal method is safe, say cutting into a cake, or opening a box of balloons in your home I see no harm in this.
That would be nice, but I think trans activists would disagree. You don't know what the gender is till the baby tells you itself. Feel free to read this literally or as sarcasm, whichever you prefer.
When did this nonsense with the gender reveal parties actually start? Is there any reason other than so that the couple can collect as many gifts as possible?
That's how it used to be. And even then, some people preferred not to know, it would be a surprise at birth :)
Literally no one cares about the sex of any baby except the parents and royals from the Tudor period. Stop making this a thing. I am so sick of pretending to care at these stupid parties.
We, my husband, and I didn't want to know the sex of both our daughters. As long as they were healthy, that's all we wanted to know. It made it more exciting not knowing until they were born.
Gender reveal is illegal where I'm from. So, you get to know the sex of baby when he/she is born
We found out the sex as soon as we could for my 3 nieces (my sister and her girls have lived with me since before she was pregnant with her first) for planning purposes. I see no issue with the fun of doing this as part of a gender reveal, but the method of reveal has gotten ridiculous and frequently dangerous or damaging. Which is just stupid. What was wrong with a colored cake?
My mom and grandma always used to say : it doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl. The most important is that the baby is healthy
Gender reveal parties are getting ridiculous. With my first pregnancy I didn't want to know what I was having (I had a boy) and with my second pregnancy I found out I was having twins so I wanted to know what they were so I could prepare. The doctor called to say the Amnio results showed they were fine and then asked if I wanted to know the sex of the babies and I said yes. I ended up with identical twin girls. Not everything has to be a party!
Gender reveal parties, just don't get it. Probably just another attempt at being the focus of everyone's attention? Some celebrity thing that needs to be copied out of fear of being, what? The only reason for me to celebrate it specifically would be if a certain genetic decease would be risky for one of the options.
Yeah...I'm Gen X, but I feel pretty Boomer about this one. So far so good, I have never been invited to a gender reveal party!
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Currently, the thread above this one is the one about the baby with the iPad.
Whether on the internet or in real life, moms and dads benefit from each other's support and camaraderie. Vicki Broadbent, the woman behind the acclaimed family lifestyle blog Honest Mum, believes that parents need other parents so they don't feel so alone.
But that said, "I only mix with parents I would hang out with even if we weren't parents," she explained to Bored Panda. "Being moms, for example, is not enough to make us compatible as friends. We need to share values first and foremost, but also interests too, outside of our kids in order to bond and enjoy one another's company."
Definitely for girls. Boys need to watch a live child birth after boys have to take care of child that has colic. Let's see how many kids happen after that sex Ed class.
It really does depend on how the story is told. When my daughter was about 3 she was playing with her toys in the bath, she had a cheap kids magnifying glass. She noticed that when she held it near the wall, the light from the window became focused and she got the image of the window, sun, sky, and clouds on the white tiles. It's pretty cool I think. But when I'm feeling particularly pompous I'll tell people she reinvented the camera obscura when she was 3 years old.
"Ultimately friendship is about coming together and having fun, it's about feeling comfortable in one another's company and it involves building trust which usually occurs over time," Broadbent added.
"I cherish my friends who are parents because they're non-judgmental, kind, and supportive. They're all super funny too!"
I'm actually pretty good at the answers. However the repeated mom, mom, mom. I sometimes wonder if dying is the only way out. LOL
As long as they cry. My brother fell down two steps of stairs and my mother knew it was serious because he did not cry. He'd cracked his skull and was unconscious. Crying, though annoying, is still a good sign.
These relationships can indeed be valuable. For example, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, American parents are more likely to say they feel judged by family members than by their friends, other parents in their community, or people they interact with online.
However, while about half or fewer parents say they regularly feel judged by different groups, a majority of them (57%) report there might be some truth to it, as they believe their children's successes and failures reflect a great deal or a fair amount on the job they're doing as parents.
"I've got my own life now!" "I know that! I just wanted to be a part of it!" *sniffle*
Has to be the kid that can clean the entire house in one night. And that includes cleaning up litres of paint without the lingering smell of turps, cleaning great gobs of honey with no stickiness left over, restoring burnt doorknobs, etc
"Horses for courses though right, not every friend needs to meet your every need, and some friends will be more of an acquaintance, others will be your 'ride or dies,'" Vicki of Honest Mum added.
"Keep your circle small though and find out if they have your back before telling them your most intimate secrets!"
Let me recaption this for you. Parents 8 months into the pregnancy / Parents one week after the birth.
Priest, vicar and rabbi talk about when life begins. Vicar says "life begins at birth", priest counters with "no no no, life begins at conception." Rabbi leans back, laughs a bit and says "you are both wrong. Life begins when kids move out and dog dies."
At the end of the day, the mom believes it all comes down to trust and what feels comfortable. "Some feel it's easier to open up candidly to those they don't know that well. Others, like myself, have to have known friends for years to be fully vulnerable. Follow your heart, but be cautious too; it's hard to ascertain people's intentions when you've only just met them," she suggested. So if memes are enough for you, that's good too!
I ham it up. I do the old man voice with my retelling, and I exaggerate the suffering. "Well in my day movies didn't come on DVDs. They came on celluloid reels. And you had to walk to the studio in hollywood and pay for them to make a copy, which took like a week. Then you had to ravel it all like so... *mountaineering rope ravel action* ... and then you had to walk home with it. Only to realise you didn't have a celluloid projector. So you'd have to save up for one. But they didn't sell them assembled, nosirree. You had to assemble it with a screwdriver."
"Don't come running to me if you break your leg!"
Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma, Momma,... WHAT!?! Lookit me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So saith the person with no children: GROSS! Give me cat hair any day.
I love Christopher Lloyd to death, but some of his roles were more interesting than others.
I'm in this picture, and I don't like it.
That is why you pick it up carefully, pretend to eat it- receive a smile - and put it back in the baby's hand - and receive an even bigger smile. Win, win; they got you a present you enjoyed, they got a present back and you avoided the yucky part :)
It's especially great when your kid's too young to tell time!
A pic of a 99 year old in the last stages of terminal cancer isn't the great illustration to this that you think it is.
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Has anyone been annoyed at the new ads on this site?
Yes very much so. And the stupid shopping bits that are pretending to be articles
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Accurate....and the best time we had. Now our children have left the house and I can't wait to be a grandfather :-)
Yeah I have 3 years to go till I'm on my own and don't have to battle anymore.
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Has anyone been annoyed at the new ads on this site?
Yes very much so. And the stupid shopping bits that are pretending to be articles
Load More Replies... Accurate....and the best time we had. Now our children have left the house and I can't wait to be a grandfather :-)
Yeah I have 3 years to go till I'm on my own and don't have to battle anymore.
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