Are daughters better at caring for parents?.

To the drugs etc I mean, no toy boy available

Lots of love and supportive thoughts merlot.

I am not in a position to know who might be best as carers - I only have daughters - but I have to say they are truly wonderful and have been totally loving and supportive during recent trials and tribulations. And they are very emotionally on the ball and able to empathise with and imagine our feelings and are sensitive to these. They also bring humour - much needed sometimes! - and are generous in sharing the fun of the GC. We are truly blessed with our family.

How does one obtain a toy boy? On amazon or would you try toys r us?
I could do with one!

merlot

I'm inclined to agree with Ella. My brothers are supportive of Mum and of me but are useless at things like toiletries or clothes shopping and, because they both have jobs and I don't, it is me who does the dogsbody stuff, runs the bank accounts etc.

A toyboy? - not sure I could keep up!

kitty, not having daughters, I wouldn't be able to make a comparison, but it's impossible to generalise about the male of the species. DS2 would certainly stock me up with toiletries - he goes to Sainsbury's and snaps up trolleyloads of special offers so that their bathroom is full of shampoos and shower gels not to mention toilet rolls. And as for what he comes home with from his bi-annual outing to the Next sale... And DS1 would keep me fed. I think I will have to find an oldies' flat somewhere between Sandhurst and Didcot, assuming that neither of them is going to move.

jeni no such site. Just googled it to be sure

Different ages possibly anno? You presumably didn't go in for gender stereotyping as much as our parent's generation. When my brothers and I were young I did all the washing up while they cut the lawn between them. When I complained Mum, scandalised, said that boys couldn't be expected to wash up!

kitty, not having daughters, I wouldn't be able to make a comparison, but it's impossible to generalise about the male of the species. DS2 would certainly stock me up with toiletries - he goes to Sainsbury's and snaps up trolleyloads of special offers so that their bathroom is full of shampoos and shower gels not to mention toilet rolls. And as for what he comes home with from his bi-annual outing to the Next sale... And DS1 would keep me fed. I think I will have to find an oldies' flat somewhere between Sandhurst and Didcot, assuming that neither of them is going to move.

Sorry about this double post. The phone rang just after I'd done it, then I forgot I had....

Neither could I mishap
Did you try toyboys R us?

That last bit was to jeni

I dont think it is about wheter it is a daughter or a son I think it is about what kind of person they are as an individual...

This looks like a good buy for those in the market for a toy boy!

Grow your Own

ana I don't know what you've heard about us but I think we'd all agree....even if we can't afford to be choosy, a minimum requirement in a man....he must have a pulse!
Though I don't know if I speak for everyone????

Huh! At least he's cheap and can't answer back.

Actually, I'd like mine to have more than a pulse.....

Ana I've sent off for him. I'm that desparate!

I don't know who's shocked me more but I think jeni wins by a short head.

My dd is going on a training course at the end of this month, to be a part time carer. She has always had leanings that way but has been running a business with sil up to now.
Both my ds and dd are quick to offer to look after me (very rarely need it!), and both helped with my dad, showering him etc. and making him lunch, coming to hospital at short notice and being generally as supportive as they could be.
I'm very lucky.

It's not his head I'm interested in.




It's his brains

JENI

I thought you had norovirus last night jeni ??
It obviously suits you!

Yes, it's obviously given you an appetite, jeni! (Not for food, though...)

I haven't had anything to eat since Thursday! Still not very hungry (for food) might scramble an egg white later.(egg yolk allergy)

That should be Wednesday and I only had 2fishcakes then!