How you know your house is full of girls, girls, girls.
I probably wouldn’t know what to do with a boy. I grew up the oldest of three sisters and now I parent three little girls. While not every girl likes pink and purple, these are based on my experience as a girl, raised among girls, raised by girls (my mum, grandmum, and aunt), and now raising girls.
1. You know you can never have too many dresses.
2. And shoes, you can never have too many shoes…or thongs (because thongs come in different colours, and different shades of the same colour, and they can have stripes, or polka-dots, or ribbons, or jewels!)
3. Or bags, you can never have too many bags. There is so much to put in them! Toys, Lego, ribbons, books, rocks, your sister’s toys, crayons, whatever was on your bed and your mother said, “Clean your room!” so you throw it all in a cute bag and slide it under your bed.
4. You know there are more than 1, 357 shades of pink and purple.
5. If you cannot decide on an outfit, you start the day with one outfit, then finish the day with a different one.
6. Everyone wants the same sparkly headband.
7. Making lists is fun! (Who said anything about tackling the lists?).
8. If one girl gets her fingernails painted, every girl gets her fingernails painted.
9. Talking is an ongoing activity that does not stop… ever!
10. Skinned knees and adventures happen all day long (see point above: the – talking – hardly- ever -stops!).
