Wipe front to back when you change her diaper.
Other than that, not much difference.
That is true. My oldest daughter (7) is basically Wednesday Adams and is obsessed with bugs, reptiles, frogs, dinosaurs, and all of biology but she is also a great artist. She draws and paints some striking but sometimes unsettling work in her little studio but that is just who she is. Her little sister (3) was born with an innate fashion and color sense and focuses completely on that. She changes outfits several times a day trying to get the best choice for her at that hour. Shoes are always a major point of focus for her and she will follow you around and talk about different shoes endlessly.
There is no way simple parenting produced such different children. They were just born that way and I love them both for who they are. You just have to wait and see what you get but it probably won’t take any deliberate effort to adapt to it. My oldest hates any organized sports but she loves to fish so I do that with her. You will find out something similar no matter what it is.
The only major difference between boys and girls is that girls tend to get pissy with their close friends as they pass through elementary school and I hear it get worse in junior high and high school. I don’t have any experience with that yet but we will see.
Congrats!
Just remember…you’ll be learning all about who she is and what she likes at the same time she’s learning. You’re in it together! This is something basic I’ve learned about parenting…it’s not like they go through drastic changes every day. They learn and grow gradually, and you learn and grow with them, aquiring the needed parenting skills as you go. It’ll be the same thing with finding out about how girls “work.”
But I have sympathy. We’re expecting a boy in January, and as someone who only had a sister, and then a daughter, small boys are mysteries to me. It’s definitely intimidating. But I’m just trusting I’ll figure it out, with hubby’s help.
Yep. They were born that way. I was the youngest of five girls, and my oldest sister is 13 years older than me, so I was only 8 when I became an aunt for the first time. After that, it seemed like one of my sisters or another were popping out a baby every year or two (two of my sisters had babies withing weeks of one another). So I grew up around babies/little kids. My hubby, OTOH, had no experience with babies/little kids when we had our first child. He had this odd notion that kids don’t really have personalities until they’re about 8 or 9! I tried and tried to tell him that they come with personalities already built in! He didn’t really believe me until we had kid number two (just a month shy of kid number one’s fourth birthday), and the second kid was so different from the first one. Then, 8 years later, kid three came along, and she was nothing like either of her sisters!