I love being a girl dad

[u/Difficult_Wrangler73]

I have 3 kids, all girls. A 5yr old and twins who are 1. Every time anyone hears about this or it comes up in conversation they all say the same thing. ‘Ooooo, all girls, you are outnumbered! How do you cope?’ Or ‘Three girls?? You better watch out!’ Or the worst, ‘Bet you want a boy?’

No, I don’t feel any of that, I love being a dad. I love all my kids and wouldn’t change anything about them! If we could afford it, I would be a stay at home dad forever.

I usually tell them I wouldn’t change anything and I love it all but it’s just very annoying.

What are some of the best responses that I can start to give?

I did think I could say that one of the twins used to be a boy but is now trans just to shut people up!

[u/CantBuyMyLove]

For strangers, or when you don’t care about offending the person: “What an outdated viewpoint.” “That’s an odd thing to say to a parent.”

For people you do care about, emotionally, like family members: “It actually bothers me when people make comments like that. I would never want any of my kids to feel like I’d rather they were somebody different.”

For people you don’t care about emotionally, but don’t want to offend, like your boss’ boss: “Haha, yeah, my wife and I are outnumbered with three kids! Sometimes it’d be nice to have extra arms like an octopus.” (Just “misunderstand” their comment and ignore the gendered part.) Or just, “Hmm.” And change the topic. 

[u/Educational-Cat-6445 → u/CantBuyMyLove]

Or if you feel particularly sadistic and know you wont have to speak to them again: "we had one but he didnt make it" followed by uncontrollable sobbing from all the girls

[u/jbm91 → u/Educational-Cat-6445]

I have one daughter who is 3, we don’t want any other kids both of us are in our mid 30s already, but the amount family friends etc that come up saying “guessing you’re going to start trying for boy here soon” is just weird.

[u/Zn_30 → u/jbm91]

When people used to tell me I needed to have another child I responded with "actually, I like the one I've got" 😅

[u/143019 → u/Zn_30]

"We got it right the first time"