Moms with boys, girls reveal play fighting and more gross behavior between siblings

I shared a story on my TikTok recently about a friend who called me with a horror story about her boys.The brothers, as part of their “play fighting,” did some things to each other… and let’s just put it this way, their behavior could get them arrested for hazing if they were tried adults.My friend was totally emotionally unprepared for this as a mom.It made me realize, I have not been checking on my friends with boys enough!So, I put it to my TikTok audience, and they agreed – “Nobody prepared me for this!” as one put it.The sum of my comments section was that when you put brothers in particular together, they are wriggly and filled with endless energy, which leads to disgusting antics and messy adventures.Which they think are hilarious, of course.Let’s take this mom, who shared that she found her boys drinking water from each others’ butt cracks… she’s still traumatized, years later.Another viewer shared, “My middle son sat on my other son’s face and farted until he vomited,” and he’s not alone, as a second mom recalled a similar story.Then there was this anecdote: “My younger son bit his brother’s willy so hard it nearly circumcised him.”To be clear I don’t think that all boys are this way and all girls are demure little angels either; all kids are unique and are as similar as they are different.There does seem to be a common thread with the toilet humor related incidents though.Or so I thought.Until the Girl Moms entered the chat.“Trust me, girls aren’t much better.

My girls will wrestle and fight with each other just as much as boys do!” read one comment.From there, I was schooled pretty quickly in the funny and feral behavior of the little girls with sisters, too.From sticking their feet in each others butts to stories of poo I learned pretty quickly that the most common thread in the gross behavior game was childhood.I found school teachers reinforcing this: that boys are particularly busy and rambunctious but ...