If you were the parent of a tomboyish girl, would you try to intervene and steer her towards a more feminine style?

I was and still am a "tomboy" and I am 30ish. I wouldn't have changed even if I had been lead to be more girly. I met and married my husband because I wasn't a girly-girl.

I enjoy being thought of as "one-of-the-guys! " I am a Mom now with a little boy and I love that I can and will be interested in doing boy-like things. My husband and I enjoy our sports time together and almost all of our friends are the same way.

Don't get me wrong, there is a balance between being a girl and being a tomboy. Just because I was a tomboy it doesn't mean that I didn't/don't like getting dressed up for things like the prom in high school or fancy holiday parties for my husband's work. I love it and look forward to it, but I am more comfortable being myself, and if that means I come off as being a tomboy then so be it.

Allow your daughter to be herself and she will grow into a strong confident woman who knows who she is and not who people thing she should be. You will thank me for this when she is my age. I think that if my parents had tried to make me more girly I would have just grown up confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

I thank my mom for letting me be me!

Of course not. If my daughter isn't interested in things that society considers "feminine," that's fine. Most of those distinctions are pretty arbitrary anyway.To take just one example, pink used to be considered a color "for boys" until very recently.

It's about encouraging my daughter to be herself, not what society says she should be just because of her gender. So if she wants to be a "tomboy" (I hate that word, but whatever), good for her! It's not something she needs to grow out of or change.

No I see nothing wrong with a girl that likes to wear clothing that leans more towards a boy. I might be a little bias because I was a tomboy when I was younger. I hated to wear a dress, I would not even put one on and even to this day I hate the color pink.

This has nothing to do with who your child is. It might just be more comfortable for her to dress like a guy. I find that girls clothes are more constrictive and would take a pair of jeans and a tee shirt any day.

I would just let her wear what she wants unless there was an issue with her moods. Like if she seems depressed or something else is going on then I would talk to her about that, but not her clothing. I figure that each child is their own person so let them wear what they want to.It will not hurt them in any way.

No, I wouldn't. Many tomboys eventually turn into lovely young ladies, even if they keep their tomboy attitude. By the time boys and girls are old enough to notice each other, those things usually take care of themselves, and there's more to being feminine than putting on a dress and makeup and batting your eyelashes.

My daughter is the same way. She is 9 and this was her first year of tackle football. I encourage her to do what ever she want to do.

I am not sure how old your daughter is but I think that steering her in a different may create other issues for you. Try to introduce other option for her but let her make the decision to go down that path on her own.

Nope. As the mother of 2 girls and no boys, I see nothing wrong with tomboyish behavior. Let your kids be who they are and enjoy the activities they are interested in whether its cheerleading and baking or playing sports and hunting.

When they approach their mid-teens they'ill probably become more feminine naturally as they'll want to appear attrative to boys. If not, that may also serve to attract the type of mate that could be the perfect one for them in the long run, as they may have more common interests.

Upto 10 yrs of age its OK. But once they are aheading towards teenage, slowly we should try them to explain the importance of being a girl and their behaviour pattern. Even they too start feeling some harmonal changes and its easy for them to aceept the fact if you convince them logically and with lot of affection.

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