Holly Wainwright

Some men run away from their overbearing mothers.

Yeah, but there's a flip side to that, which is as soon as you have a girl who enters puberty, everyone will go, oh, you've got trouble.

No, it's different.

So the stereotypes tend to be that little boys are a handful.

So you'll hear a lot of boy moms, and this is entirely valid.

Again, from my experience, it's not necessarily that blanket true because I have a son, for example, who doesn't like sport and a daughter who's crazy about it.

So, you know, the world moves in mysterious ways.

But to generalize broadly, the stereotypes are...

As a boy mum, when the kid is little, they'll never sit still.

They'll be running around.

You'll have a lot of balls in your house.

It'll be, you know, you'll constantly be apologising to people because they've smashed a window or whatever.

And there's definitely truth in that.

Whereas girls sit nicely in colour at the playdates and you'll hear a lot of mums talk about that in a very real way and it's true.

Then when they get towards, like, teenage years, you'll get the, like, oh, but girls are so much trouble.

I hope you've got a shotgun.

I hope she's not going to wear that.

I hope she's not going to go there.

Like...

So you can't win in these gender stereotypes.