The news of the gender of baby number four provided a good opportunity to have some fun with the kids, so one night we gathered them around the table and began to talk about the baby in Mommy’s tummy. We asked each of them if they would rather have a boy or a girl. Predictably, they each wanted their own gender.
So then Shar said to Kaylyn, “You already have a baby sister and a baby brother. If we have a girl, our family will be 4 girls and 2 boys. But if we have a boy, then we will have 3 girls and 3 boys.”
Kaylyn said, “Ooh! Yea! I want a boy.”
Christian was already good to go, so then we said to Joslyn, ”Joslyn, would you like to have a baby to play with?”
She grinned and said, “Yes!”
So we said, in a magical moment of redirection, “Would you like to have a baby boy to play with?”
“Yes!” Joslyn said. It’s all in how you phrase the question.
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