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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS’s friends, including those on his sports team, are not into this. Nice kids.

The girls in my DD’s class? Really awful and they get it from their moms.

So there’s that.

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That’s actually really interesting, because in our grade with very badly behaved mean boys, it’s their moms who have the most social capital in the grade and are part of the more pretty/popular/rich parent clique. The moms of girls are more of a mixed group. [/quote]

It’s almost like it varies across schools, grades and activities. Like making such broad general statements really isn’t useful at all.

Hmmm.
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I think what people are saying is that the aggression by boys has escalated beyond what a normal and seems to be sanctioned parents in a way that it wasn’t in the past.

No one is arguing that girls aren’t badly behaved or that some kids are well behaved, just that one end of the bell curve of behavior seems to have changed significantly and for reasons that have to do with people’s specific parenting goals.[/quote]

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