Boys will be Boys

.....and that's not such a bad thing. Gage is ALL boy. He loves to play rough, sometimes too rough. He often gets the best of his older sister and other kids he plays with. He does a move I call "the take down" where he comes up behind someone, grabs them around the waist and falls backward. I swear he has a future in professional wrestling!
But I realized something the other day.....Gage has only girls to play with. He has a sister, the neighbor across the street has girls, my best friend has 3 girls!! So over Thanksgiving we went to my sisters house. My two nephews were there. They are 7 and 9 years old and I mean they are all rough and tumble boys! They run, jump, yell and carry on like testosterone filled little boys do, and let me tell you Gage had a blast playing with them. It was so joyous for me to watch him wrestle with them and they didn't cry, they ran, they laughed they wrestled and Gage got to do his signature "take down" move and the boys loved it. They thought he was sooooo cool because he played rough. We still had some trouble with Gage biting, but he bit one of the boys and they just said "ouch!" pushed him away and kept playing chase. There was no major melt down, no screaming, they just shrugged it off. My two young nephews have two older brothers so they learned early to be tough, so Gage is no big deal for them.
After watching them I began to think, maybe Gage is not that bad maybe he just needs some rough little boys to play with!