Where are the boys?

[RSKY]

Sitting on the beach at Gulf Shores and I have a question.

Where are all the little boys?

Dads are here. But they all have little girls with them. Out of the hundred or two pre-teens I have noticed today I've seen only four little boys!

Dads are fishing, little girls with them. Dads throwing footballs to girls. Etc., etc..

As the daddy of daughters and the grandaddy of granddaughters I know I notice the little girls more but there are no little boys here.

NONE!!

What is going on?

RSKY

 

[Citydude]

Years ago I'd say that the boys were at cub scouts, baseball practice, soccer practice, riding their bikes and so on. Now days, using my family for example, my granddaughters are more outdoor types than my grandsons. PS2 and Xbox has the boys indoors. When they are with me, I kick them off them things. Their parents (yes, my kids) however, don't seem to understand my concerns.

 

[Citydude]

Forgot to add, I love Gulf Shores!

 

[dragoneggs]

I married the seventh consecutive sister in a family that lost their dad when they were young. Have two sisters and no brothers myself... I did get blessed with a son and daughter but now three grand daughters. I'm wondering the same. Are us guys becoming rare?

 

[farm boy00]

4 boys 1 girl here. We are all outdoors people

 

[MossRoad]

The boys are inside playing video games. We've noticed the same thing. Not enough boys to fill out sports teams. Girls teams are full.

 

[mddorange]

All 7 of my grandkids are girls. Maybe it is like oldpilgrim said.

 

[RSKY]

Two hardest words to resist in the English language is a granddaughter saying, "Grandaddy please"!

 

[Birdhunter1]

I bet the dads were happy no boys were around!
My daughter is almost 5, not looking forward to the day boys start coming around to see or hang out with her. However my son is almost 7 so boys will be around to play anyway.

 

[Garandman]

My son was born in South Boston, MA, a Boston neighborhood. Taking the local Catholic school and local elementary schools, his class was 34 boys and 8 girls.

 

[MossRoad]

My son was born in South Boston, MA, a Boston neighborhood. Taking the local Catholic school and local elementary schools, his class was 34 boys and 8 girls.

My daughter's class for 8 years of grade school was 12 girls and one boy. That kid didn't mind.... :laughing:

She was also in a history class in high school with 24 boys and she was the only girl. She used it as an opportunity to enforce her theory that "Boys are dumb".

 

[farm boy00]

My daughter's class for 8 years of grade school was 12 girls and one boy. That kid didn't mind.... :laughing:

She was also in a history class in high school with 24 boys and she was the only girl. She used it as an opportunity to enforce her theory that "Boys are dumb".

At the beginning of my 8th grade (last year) one girl and 15 boys. Then a bunch of girls returned

 

[mark02tj]

My son was born in South Boston, MA, a Boston neighborhood. Taking the local Catholic school and local elementary schools, his class was 34 boys and 8 girls.

In my church confirmation class (41 years ago when I was in 7th grade) it was 11 girls... and me! The minister that led the class (now in his 80's) still remembered that (and chuckled about it!) when I saw him a year ago.

 

[Garandman]

My daughter's class for 8 years of grade school was 12 girls and one boy. That kid didn't mind.... :laughing:

She was also in a history class in high school with 24 boys and she was the only girl. She used it as an opportunity to enforce her theory that "Boys are dumb".

"Girls go to college to get more knowledge.

Boys go to Jupiter to get even stupider."

 

[MossRoad]

"Girls go to college to get more knowledge.

Boys go to Jupiter to get even stupider."

Nice! :laughing:

 

[Got2BTru]

Had this iron-on for a t-shirt for my daughter when she was like 3 (18 now)

 

[Dftodd]

2 son's and a daughter. Two grandsons as well

 

[RSKY]

Had one dad bring two little boys to the beach this morning. It was about 85 degrees. They all had on long sleeves and barely got in the water. They left after about thirty minutes. To say the boys, about five and seven, were timid is an understatement. The dad had his hair in a bun on top of his head.

This afternoon another couple brought three boys to the water. They were probably six to ten years old. Took both laughing parents to keep them out of trouble. More like boys ought to be. If possible they were more active than my six year old granddaughter and she wore me out keeping up with her. "Grandaddy please", is hard to turn down.

 

[farm boy00]

"Girls go to college to get more knowledge.

Boys go to Jupiter to get even stupider."

No no the big thing ain't Jupiter. It's Mars