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Finn: Mum, are you sad that you didn’t have any girls? I sometimes hear people say to you they don’t know how you do it with three boys, and poor you because you don’t have a daughter… do you wish that you had a girl?

Mum: I’m sorry you’ve heard people say that. Because it’s totally wrong to think that one gender is better than another. I wouldn’t swap any of you boys for a girl!

God talks about the creation of men and women, being very good. The man was alone, and it was not good. He needed someone to work alongside him, and God created the woman and it is very good. Adam and Eve needed to be a team. God didn’t make one better than the other, they were designed to be together. We need both.

“God loves us all, Jesus came to die for us all, so we can all be in a relationship with God, whether we are male or female. But we are not all the same - we are equally loved, and also different. Like the paper and pencil - males and females are not the same, they can do different things but we work best together. We compl-e-ment each other.”

A gentle dad means you don’t need to be afraid when you have made a mistake. There is no

anxiety in your child’s mind, worrying about ‘how dad will react’. The gentle dad doesn’t get

angry over small things….