Tomboy

My daughter has an announcement to make. She assembles us all on the back lawn and allows suspense to thicken.

'I am going,' she declares importantly, 'to become a tomboy.'

I am surprised. Her all-pink bedroom is full of all-pink Barbies and her favourite pastime is Claire's Accessories. But the childish spirit must not be quelled and so I congratulate her and tell her that she'll be able help with my manure mulching. She looks aghast and says that she's going in to change.

Shortly afterwards her head pokes out of her bedroom window. 'What do tomboys wear?' she yells. Then she reappears in carefully coordinated jeans and shirt and trainers. She tows a bag behind her as she climbs the apple tree and draws from it a pair of sun glasses, an iPod and a hair brush.

I offer her a spade to help with the shovelling. 'No thanks,' she shudders. 'I'll get my clothes all muddy.' And she dons the sunglasses and the iPod and reclines on a web of branches and at the end of the afternoon I am crusted with rotted dung and she is exultant as she climbs carefully down from her perch.

'Poor Mummy!' she says, eyeing me with disdain. 'You should become a tomboy too!'

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Comments

  1. Rhiannon (@ The_Last_Slayer)21 November 2011 at 10:14

    Brilliant! Being a Tom boy has certainly changed from when I was little.

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  2. Midlife Singlemum21 November 2011 at 10:48

    hahaha - I tried to become a tomboy once as I liked the idea of it. I also didn't last long for similar reasons to your daughter. There's a life lesson there somewhere - you are what you are or something.

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  3. A Little Light Work21 November 2011 at 14:34

    Sounds as though she's got the balance just about right: a tomboy who takes care of her hands. Smart girl.

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  4. Him Up North21 November 2011 at 23:18

    My image of a tomboy is of George from the Famous Five. She would never have approved of your daughter's attempt, but then George would have been too busy arm-wrestling Julian.

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  5. Anonymous22 November 2011 at 14:16

    Sounds like "she's got her head screwed on the right way", as my mother would say. Clever girl.

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  6. Kate22 November 2011 at 19:34

    Is she back to her sequins yet?!

    BTW thank you for your lovely comment on my blog. I read it, went to reply to it, and blogger had deleted it :( Sorry but thanks for the kind words. x

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  7. Rebecca English22 November 2011 at 21:14

    You're daughter sounds fabulous.
    .... Think she'll have to try a bit harder to be a Tom boy if she thinks a hair brash is essential equipment.

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  8. Unknown12 February 2012 at 22:41

    Haha!! Think she needs to work on it a bit....

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