Boy Child vs Girl Child

It’s purely my thoughts and my thoughts at this moment only  There is always a myth that girl children are very fond of their dads and the boys of their moms. With maya being my first born, I felt this myth isn’t actually true. She loves her dad, but she is truly a mommy’s girl. Surely she drives me crazy, but everything is about mom for her. Recently, with her realizing I am a bit more strict than her dad, at the age of 5, she calls her dad when she is in her time out or something like that, but other than that, she is always behind me. So I never felt the generalization of girl child’s preference to the dad being any suitable in our house. With my son nearly turning 1, him expressing so much these days, I can clearly see the difference between him and her, even as a child. Surely maya was almost the same at his age, would cling on to me and wouldn’t go to anyone else, but the level of the clinginess is so different. From the past two months, ever since he is almost 10 months old, he started clinging on to me like a koala bear. First, my in laws would show him some toy and take him away from me while I leave to work. Then it had to involve my husband who would take him from me and then give it to his parents. But lately, anyone has to tear him apart from me. He clings on to the very edge of my hand when I leave. And yeah, I think for a boy child, the mom looks so beautiful. Last weekend I noticed, I tried to put him for the morning sleep and I hadn’t taken bath, combed my hair or anything. He was very playful, so I thought I might as well leave him play for a while and take bath in that time. I dressed up and came and all he squeaked was …waaaaahhhh….OMG, in such a beautiful tone. He touched my cheeks, my dress and hugged me and that was such a pleasant sweet surprise to me. Today morning, as usual I got ready for office and he had the same expression and so happy to be on me. Personally, I feel, a girl child looks upto to her mother, but is more aware of her beauty and expects everyone to praise her. May be, a boy child is different, who thinks his mom is so beautiful. Its too early to tell, but I think, I should let this pleasant feeling sweep on me for a while ;).