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[quote=Anonymous]I have three boys and one girl.  I agree that there were social/friend relationship things starting much earlier with my daughter.  Some of it was funny, and some was downright mean (another little girl telling my daughter’s friends not to be friends with her at 6-7 years old).  This stuff happened with my boys, but not until they starteded to hit puberty and had an increase in testosterone.  It seemed more hormonal and less social than in the girls my daughter is friends with.  DD went to an all girls summer camp this year, and I think it was good for her to see how the girls socialize with each other because she had been struggling with it at school.  It makes me kind of sad though.  I think the boys are allowed to be who they are without having to conform to the world a lot longer than girls are.  
The boys were more physical when they were young.  When their friends would come over, they would run around the yard and the house and get into stuff.  My daughter and her friends would spend a lot more time sitting in her room and talking.  They were just as physical and competitive when it comes to sports and just as likely to take a swing at each other as the boys though.

I did not have the experience at school that pp is talking about.  My experience was that early elementary school seemed to be pretty geared towards girls.  With the exception of a couple of teachers, I think that most elementary school teachers just identify more with girls.  There was a lot of talking and coloring and not a lot of physical play in their learning (again, there were two exceptions).  
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