What is your opinion which is easiest to raise and why? :dunno

Girls, but im biased :teehee

at the stages where my kids are at, i say girls are easier. that may change though as they get older LOL

they both have their ups and downs. IMO and experience boys are very very energetic when they are toddlers, much more so than my girls were. But now that (girl) my oldest is 10 i am getting the lip a lot. and the sighing and they whining.. with my son who is only 7 he is still super eager to help out and be there for me. My almost 5 year old daughter is also giving some attitude ( thanks big sis :D)

ETA I agree with Donna each stage is different. once girls hit a certain age it's like hormone overload. :nutts

i dunno lol

It is kind of even. I have two girls that have been very easy with day time routines and going places. Where my son is all over the place, climbing on things. On the other hand my son was a very good eater and sleeper and my girls were not. They both have very different challenges.

In my experience, my son was so much easier to raise from birth on than either of my girls. My son was always content, easy going, never teethed, never got sick, followed the rules, etc. My girls from day one were demanding, moody, stubborn. They just plain wore me out!! Still do and they are both grown. Well, my youngest will be 18 in January. They both could be very sweet and loving of course, but they certainly took a lot more energy to keep up with.

So far, as a newborn and infant, they are both equally easy and hard. Just differences is all.

For example....

Ethan was a calm baby. He never cried at all unless he was very sick

Ashley cries alot. SHe likes to be heard and is very high needs

Ethan was a TERRIBLE eater. He never ate alot of baby food etc

Ashley on the other hand eats EVERYTHING and LOVES food

Ethan was a rotten sleeper. He woke every 2 hours until darn near 14 months old. At which point he started sleeping thru the night

Ashley only wakes once or twice unless teething.

Ethan would never sleep in his crib. Getting him to sleep in his crib was like pulling teeth. As soon as you put him in there he popped wide awake and was pissed

Ashley on the other hand will sleep in her crib

Ethan had to have set times for sleep. He would NOT sleep ANYWHERE but the house. Not in his carseat, stroller etc. So I was stuck at home for naptimes and such

Ashley will sleep anywhere. Stroller, carseat etc. If she is tired then she will sleep.

So I think truthfully they are both equally hard and easy. Just different. Now I do not have any expierence with a toddler girl vs a boy since Ashley is only 7 months old. Ethan is almost 3. But as babys and infants they just are different

I would say boys are easiest, but I only have a boy, so that makes me kind of biased. He has been quite a handful, he has alot of energy, etc. He's 6 years old. Part of me has always wanted to have a girl, but I absolutely do not want to deal with any of the stuff that goes into raising a girl (i.e. attitude, dealing with periods, worrying about boys dating her, etc etc etc.) So, I'm very glad that we just have a boy. That may sound a little crude or whatever, but it is how I feel.

BUT, between my brother and I, my Mom always said that my brother was harder to deal with as a child, but easier to deal with as a teenager than I was. I was a horrible teenager.

I have 4 kids, our girls are teen/preteen age. Our boys are preschool/Kindergarten age.

Ive heard and have now seen for myself that boys are harder when theyre younger, girls are harder as they get older.

Lucky me... I have all the kids, at the hardest stages of their lives at the same time.

Personally I have found that they each have had their own sets of challenges.

My TWO boys are HELLUVA LOT easier than my ONE girl!! BY FAR!!

I dunno, I only have a girl :dunno LOL

I may be wrong, but I'm thinking having a son is going to be a heck of a lot easier to raise than if I had a daughter. I say this b/c I see how crazy the world is and in what I experienced as a young girl/teenager I would not wish upon anyone. Instead of the father being overprotective it would be me. I've been raped and mistreated and I wouldn't want my daughter to go through that. There's so much peer pressure as well and girls get into trouble and preg younger and younger and personally I'm not strong enough to deal w/ a situation like that. So my son's male part is the only one I'm going to worry about and I bet he'll be a hot head like me so he'll be able to hold his own. :lol

Girls are easier! Boys have no fear of anything!! But my kids are still young so I have a feeling I will change my mind when they are teenagers lol

Girls are easier! Boys have no fear of anything!! But my kids are still young so I have a feeling I will change my mind when they are teenagers lol

It is my girls that have no fear, even more so the older they got. My son was always daring with sports, snowboarding, skate boarding, etc., but cautious when it comes to driving, drinking and drugs. My daughters are more likely to drink too much (one has already been in the hospital for alcohol poisoning), have done more drugs, and they trust ANYBODY as long as they want to be their friend. It's maddening that we have not been able to convince them to be more careful about their personal safety but teenage girls are incredibly stubborn.

I know it really comes down to personality traits primarily. All three of my kids have been very consistent throughout their childhoods but I have known other kids that changed over the years.

Right now I will go with boys all the way. Breanna has given me so many issues to deal with on top of the general being emotional cause she is a girl thing, overly sensitive, and temper tantrums, not just during the terrible 2s. Johnny is into every little thing but man he has been soooooo much easier than Breanna. He is not nearly as temper mental as Breanna was or even is. He'll cry but that girl would throw herself down on the floor and scream while kicking and hitting anything she came into contact. She busted my door jam kicking the door in her oom when she was 3. She has taken off trying to run away a few times and we had to go chase her down the road. Ugh, I could go on but I won't. I'm not up for it. :lol

I don't know lol I don't have any yet. But according to my mom who had 4 girls and 1 boy she said girls are way easier. :D

My mother in law says her boys were easier than her 1 girl. She says this almost everytime I see her.

I wonder if our choice or perception of which is easier has anything to do with whether we tend to get along better with or relate more to one sex or the other. I have always, since childhood, gotten along better with boys than girls. I spent my days with my dad before I started school, I played football with the boys rather than jumprope with girls when in school, I had more guy friends than girl friends in highschool. To this day I get relate better to men than woman typically. My son was easy to raise, me and my girls were always butting heads.

Boys are definitely easier... my only dd has been hormonal since she was three. The boys are tons easier!

They are both about = I would say. Each sex has its +'s & -'s I think.

i think boys are harder when they are little... but girls are harder once puberty hits

of course.. this is just based on watching me and my brother growing up and other family members and friends.

my mind might change once i have my own kids...

but god was i an awful teenager to raise!!

I hope boys are easier, thats what dh and i want.