Boys Boys Boys

[Unregistered]

I have had a very sucessful daycare for the last several years. Several of my kids have aged out of my daycare or they have moved on.

Currently I have one girl in 3 boys in my care. All are full time. I have been conducting interviews over the last few weeks and getting lots of calls, but every single person coming to me in search of care has a boy. If I take on the other 2 kids that I just interviewed with, I will have all boys and one girl. I worry that the mother (who also happens to be my longest client present) will want to pull her daughter. I am not too sure what to do if anything.

I have no clue why, but in the past several months all of the calls have been for boys, not one single girl.....

What would you do if anything? Am I worrying to much about nothing?

[wdmmom]

Nothing you can do really. It just so happened when I started that it was all girls and 1 boy. As time went on and kids went off to school, families moved, etc, I'm was maxed out with ALL boys. Now, I have 4 boys, 2 girls and the girls are sisters!

Just go with the flow...

[sharlan]

I wouldn't worry about it. I always had far more girls than boys, but it never seemed to be an issue with the parents. Right now I have 4 boys and 1 girl.

[Meyou]

I've had all boys and one girl and next Sept I'll have all girls and one boy. The kids don't seem to mind.

[Zoe]

When I was a kid, all of my parents' friends had boys so that's who I played with...boys. Didn't really bother me, why should it bother this girl? Unless the boys are being exclusive, I wouldn't worry about it. And if they are, nip that in the bud.

[Qpmomma]

My daughter is in daycare with all boys. I feel sorry for the boys .

[Kaddidle Care]

We tend to go every other year in our Prek - almost all boys, almost all girls. It is "boy" year here too. Hold onto your boots! ::

I have found that girls are easier to get to do "work" but they are more moody and tattle a lot more than boys. I call it the "Princess syndrome".

Boys are hard to rope in to do work and it's like their natural instinct to pretend they're shooting or wrestling across the floor. (Not allowed BTW) They still try.

My own son's playschool was all boys except one girl who was a twin. Mom wanted to give her a little time away from her sibling. She held her own I tell ya!

[2ndFamilyDC]

We tend to go every other year in our Prek - almost all boys, almost all girls. It is "boy" year here too. Hold onto your boots! ::

I have found that girls are easier to get to do "work" but they are more moody and tattle a lot more than boys. I call it the "Princess syndrome".

Boys are hard to rope in to do work and it's like their natural instinct to pretend they're shooting or wrestling across the floor. (Not allowed BTW) They still try.

My own son's playschool was all boys except one girl who was a twin. Mom wanted to give her a little time away from her sibling. She held her own I tell ya!

For the last 8 years here I have had more boys than girls. Usually 6 or 7 boys to 1 girl. I rarely get a call for a girl, and when I do and they as about my current enrolled kids and find out that I have all boys or one girl who is
much younger then they look elsewhere. People don't mind leaving a baby
girl with me, but never an older girl.

Boys and their wrestling and shooting.........drives me crazy.

[lilcupcakes09]

I too have always had more boys....right now 6 boys and 2 girls. I only had the one little girl for over two years, I worried about her being the only girl too, but she played right along with the boys. When I finally got another girl,it made no difference, they all still seem to play together. The boys in my group seem to be the leaders. I however prefer boys, the girls do most of the whining

[mismatchedsocks]

I have 7 boys and 5 girls enrolled. Its always been pretty even here, i have worried about ratios of girls vs. boys since 3 outta 4 times when a parent calls they ask about ages/sex of kids that are enrolled.

[Solandia]

I have always had mostly boys, in fact over the past 10yrs I have only had 2girls, and the one was only here acouple months. Mylong term girl (birth to kindie), has very outdoorsy, athletic parents who would encourage their dd to be tomboyish, don't want her to wear princess clothes, etc.

Inmy experience, parents of only girls will not choose a daycare that is mostly boys. They tend to want formal academics sooner, and for the vast majority of girls, they are capable of longer periods of focusing. The older boys I have had(several go straight from my house to kindie, no preschool, and I will not di a preschool program), simply could not handle preschool with. Group of same aged peers. Moms of little toddler girls do not want them in a home daycare with 4and5yo boys who, are by nature, louder and more rambunctious than their little princesses.

That's ok, it's benn an ongoing joke with my friends and family anytime I get a new client.... Got a new boy? Of course!

[Michelle]

I have the opposite thing going on.
I have 10 girls and 1 boy.
And all 4 of my drop in's are all girls!
Whenever I get a call and they ask about the gender's etc. of my kids and they have a boy, they don't even call back.::::::
Oh, well, it's usually pretty quiet around here.

[Rachel]

I also wouldn't worry about it. I started this year with 5 kids, all boys! So far so good

[Hunni Bee]

I've had a pretty even split over the years...although my younger class leans more to boys and my older class leans more to girls....


Right now, I've got 8 girls and 7 boys in my younger group, with a new boy starting next week. 6 girls and 3 boys in my older group.