Turns out my son is a little Lothario. At age 4.

 

It took me a while to figure this out. At first, when I picked him up or dropped him off at preschool, a little girl would give him a hug.

 

So cute.

 

And then the next day, it might be a hug and a kiss.

 

How sweet.

 

But then a week later it would be a hug and a kiss and then a solemn look before she would say, “I love you.”

 

Finally it occurred to me that he might be the Don Juan of Room 107 when another little girl greeted him in the morning and TOOK OF HIS COAT AND HAT and hung it up in his cubby for him.

 

And then he did something that chilled me to the bone:

 

He ignored her.

 

Oh no. I’ll be damned if he is going to turn into THAT boy who: never acts like he knows you exist, never calls you back, never suggests going out to dinner but instead just meeting at a bar with all of his lame friends.

 

Therefore, I started in on the, “G, give her a hug back; G, that little girl does NOT need to take off your coat for you and neatly hang it up; G, you need to at least give her a SMILE.”

 

To which he would glare at me and half-assedly do whatever I had asked of him.

 

But then I had another realization—if I make him do all these “things” (i.e., learn to treat women appropriately and with respect), then he will no longer be that rebellious, cool boy that all the girls want to date.

 

What’s a girl to do?

 

My husband, of course, says to do nothing because he wants G to have scathes of girls chasing after him when he’s a teen-ager.

 

I, on the other hand, want to be the only woman he ever loves until he is AT LEAST 35.

 

With that said, I think as a woman and a mother, it is my responsibility to teach him such basic niceties as: Ladies First, Never Hit a Girl, and NEVER Make a Girl Cry.

 

After that, this little Romeo will have to figure it out on his own. And by the looks of how preschool is going, he’ll be just fine…

 

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