Not even sure why I started wondering on this one really, but has anyone else noticed that there are way more girls in the blogring families than boys? Can’t think of any families (excepy dottyspots) with more than one boy, but several with lots of girls. With the exception of Debbie’s Daniel all the babies I know of born this year have been girls, in blogland and IRL.
Is there some huge gender swell in baby girls being born which no-one has yet identified? Does anyone know if there is an accessible record of percentage split of girls and boys born each year in the UK? Does anyone apart from me care? Should I actually just go to bed now and get as much sleep as possible before being woken up by my own little girl? Yes, I think I probably should…
It’s not just in the blogring families as far as I can tell it’s in home ed in general…
ooh, you should do a poll on muddlepuddle, see if there’s anything in this theory. Or, go to bed 😉
I’ve noticed it too, not sure if it’s the country in general or just HE. Strange though eh?
It used to be something like 53% of conceptions were boys, but 53% one year olds were girls. But I’m about 20 years out of date with those figures. And there must have been some extrapolation to get that figure, as I’m sure 20 years ago they weren’t allocating a sex to miscarriages.
In 2002 there were 14 babies born on muddlepuddle – of those 14 only 3 (Lulah, Amelie and Lottie) were girls, only Amelie was a section and something like 9 of them were homebirths. So we ought to have a set of boy orientated families coming up really. Jenn has 3 anyway!
Do you remember, we counted the children of the tent families at camp? *Loads* more girls – of the 12 families I can remember quickly, I make it 18 girls to 7 boys.
In our muddlepuddle local group, it’s on average fairly even – just depends who comes on any particular week. And at the other group, I think there are more boys – definitely more older boys anyway.
Obviously, once you’ve decided to HE, you can’t do much about what children you have next, lol, but I do think that gender differences (real, or perceived expectations of them) come into it. I wonder whether parents are more happy to ‘get rid’ of boisterous, slow-to-read boys (*not* my opinions!) to school aged 5? My SIL said she had wondered whether I would be HEing if I’d had 2 boys first instead of P&M.
And then more older boys seem to come out of school – perhaps they’re not as good as girls at adapting, finding ways of fitting in, etc? And less concerned about staying at school to be with their friends?
(All gross generalisations, and not necessarily stuff I actually believe, but it’s the sort of thing I hear ….)
Well I know they are generalisations but I must admit something similar was going through my head when I was wondering whether it was a HE specific phenomena (if it is?!) or a countrywide thing. But yes, from the very small snapshot of parents and small children I know mothers do seem more relieved to pack off a 4yo boy with all his boisterous energy and ‘need for competitive sport and rough play’ than their little 4yo girls who play sweetly with their dollies. Ironically out of my two it is Scarlett who I think would be better at being in a school environment and Davies who I feel will perhaps benefit most from HE.
Still curious about a national figure to see whether this sort of pattern happens often nationwide. And on the plus side Davies will be a popular fellow amoung his same age HE peers when they reach that certain age due to his novelty value!- rofl
Well I think atm I would gladly pack Alex off to school and keep Marcus at home 😉 Well, not really but she is way more boisterous than he is/was. Interesting theories though 🙂