Boys will be boys. No matter how young or how old, boys will be boys. Be it at 5 or 50, the secret to having a man eat out of the palm of your hand is your femininity. Just by being sweet, and flirty, and gentle, and soft, men will do whatever you want. Yes, I do realize that some of my male friends will be reading this, and no I'm not worried. I mean come on, who are we kidding? As if this was some big secret that I just uncovered? Please, we've known about this since Biblical times, when Eve used her femininity against Adam. Like an apple on its own can be good enough to leave Heaven. She probably put the apple between her breasts and told him to come and get it. Men just can't resist our womanly charms. Boys, you know it's true, so why deny it?

Even more importantly, girls will be girls. This knowledge of our own power is something innate in us. No matter how young or how old, we will use everything we have to have our way in the end. It's a law of nature. It can't be broken. Well, unless the man is gay, in which case he can teach us a thing or two about our own femininity.

Sammy and I decided to go to the beach on Sunday to soak up the sun and spend time together on Mother's Day. We set up everything and layed down to start tanning. Samantha loves copying me, and I must admit I love it when she does.

So there we were, my daughter and I, spending quality time and relaxing together. She then got up and asked if she could go play with a boy who was about 5 years old, and help him make his sand castle. I told her that she could of course, and I sat up to keep an eye on her.

They were playing for around 30 minutes when Sammy came back with her hands full. She was carrying a bag of sweets, sunglasses, toys, a little soccer ball, and a box of juice. She casually came and sat back down next to me. She noticed me looking at her inquisitively, so she looked at me, rolled her eyes, shrugged her shoulders and said "Men...".

The boy had given her everything he had with him on the beach. Yet I looked over at him, and he was smiling and in a state of absolute bliss. When I asked her if she gave him anything in return, she turned to me and said "of course I did mommy, don't be silly, I gave him a kiss".

I wonder where she gets that from...

Ciao