Gail Helen Bremner

When Babies Become Boys

Posted on June 8th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Omnia Vanitas, Sponsored Posts, Random.

Fraser is already fully transitioned from bubba to boy, and it’s a little sad. He actually said to me the other day that he was playing with “girls things,” a statement that almost made me cry — and I resorted to a very didactic lecture that probably made no sense to my beautiful little three year old, although he nodded very gravely at the conclusion. I think that we have no capacity on my side of the family for dealing with the XY set — we’re all girls, even though we’re not “girly.” I realized that pretty soon he’s going to be liking sports, not just the throwing and hitting of balls in the backyard, but the competing and spectator-ing that seems to be almost inevitable in boyhood and male adolescences. I’ve been imaging taking him to things like the Phantom of the Opera when it’s very likely he will prefer to have Miami Dolphins Tickets. La sigh. At least places like Premium Seats USA makes getting to either event easy by providing a huge selection of first-class tickets online to all concerts, sports and theater shows nationwide — no more hassle racing to ticket windows only to discover that the ones I want are sold out or otherwise unavailable. They appear to have decent customer service, so hopefully they’ll still be around when Fraser wants to go to the big game!

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