[Irene Adler]

"My son's third grade teacher told me she disliked little boys."

You know that makes me think of something my mom told me about when she taught primary gradeschool in the 1930s (way back). She said she always preferred the little boys. When I asked why, she said the boys were more straightforward and honest while the girls could be......catty and underhanded, I guess you might say (I can't remember her exact words, but that was the gist. How things change, eh?

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

My mom had a book by Erma Bombeck when I was a kid called Motherhood- the Second Oldest Profession which I loved to read way-back-when. In the book, she was asked 'which are easier to raise, boys or girls'.

Her reply was something along the lines of

"... well, I've had both and I can tell you, it's boys.

When I yell upstairs to the boys asking about that thumping noise I just heard, they reply with 'Joey just threw the cat down the laundry chute-- it was cool'
When I inquire to the girls what they are doing upstairs, they sweetly reply 'nothing'.. and I have to find out for myself that they are making cookies with my bubble bath and favorite body powder."

It's been a long time, but I've always remembered that part of the book. And now that I am a mother to three boys and one girl, and I can tell you without doubt that Ms. Bombeck, like your mother, knew *exactly* what she was talking about.