Dr. Çetiner’s Blogs (Dr. Beytullah Gültekin Çetiner)

Boys cost more to raise than girls
Boys cost thousands of dollars more to bring up than girls. A research, carried out in Britain among 2000 families, has revealed that raising boys is more expensive than raising girls.

Perhaps, many would thing the reverse meaning that girls’ expenses are more than boys. The following research reveals that this is not true.

Bringing up a son costs about $15,000 more than raising a girl, a study has found.

Parents are forced to pay out more than $65,780 through a boy’s school years - around 23 per cent more than it costs to fund a girl’s upbringing.

The London study found parents will splash out $4407 each year on their sons for clothes, gadgets and hobbies.

Daughters cost $3354 a year - or $50,858 in total.
The study, which examined the spending habits of 2000 parents, was done by GE Money.

A company spokesman said starting and raising a family was exciting and enjoyable but it could stretch finances.

The study revealed most of the money was spent on clothes, with $8087 splashed out on a boy’s childhood and $6524 on a girl’s.

Another $5357 went on buying and replacing a boy’s school uniform, compared with the $3397 for a girl. Parents then have to spend $5350 on their son’s leisure activities, such as football, basketball and cricket, while daughters generally will ask for just $2080 towards their hobbies.

Technology-loving boys also receive more when it comes to buying gadgets and are treated to $6223 worth during their childhood. Girls will have just $3088 of gadgets bought for them.

Mother of two Heather Lambert at first was surprised at the survey results.

“I would have thought that it would cost a lot more to raise a girl when you consider that you have to buy the hair straightener and the hair dryer but, when you think about it, boys do like the expensive gadgets like computer games,'’ she said.

P.S. In our belief, Educational aspects regarding different genders should have also been thoroughly examined in the study which seems to be lacking currently.

My father is the Best
I attach here a nice post sent by a friend without any change. It is really summarizing attitudes of many of us towards our daddies.

Me and My Father
When I was 4 Yrs Old : My father is THE BEST
When I was 6 Yrs Old : My father seems to know everything
When I was 10 Yrs Old : My father is excellent but he is short tempered
When I was 12 Yrs Old : My father was nice when I was little
When I was 14 Yrs Old : My father started being too sensitive
When I was 16 Yrs Old : My father can’t keep up with modern time
When I was 18 Yrs Old : My father is getting less tolerant as the days pass by
When I was 20 Yrs Old : It is too hard to forgive my father, how could my mum stand him all these years
When I was 25 Yrs Old : My father seems to be objecting to everything I do
When I was 30 Yrs Old: It’s very difficult to be in agreement with my father, I wonder if my Grandfather was troubled by my father when he was a youth
When I was 40 Yrs Old: My father brought me up with a lot of discipline, I must do the same
When I was 45 Yrs Old: I am puzzled, how did my father manage to raise all of us
When I was 50 Yrs Old : It’s rather difficult to control my kids, how much did my father suffer for the sake of upbringing and protecting us
When I was 55 Yrs Old: My father was far looking and had wide plans for us, he was gentle and outstanding.
When I became 60 Yrs Old: My father is THE BEST

Note that it took 56 Yrs to complete the cycle and return to the starting point “My father is THE BEST” !

Let’s be good to our parents before it’s too late and pray to Allah that our own children will treat us even better than the way we treated our parents