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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s because girls relate, typically, in ways more familiar to women. I love my boys but my first son has what I would describe as a very stereotypically “male” mind. He’s not interested in people or psychology, he’s interested in engines. I’m sure there are girls like this but TBH fewer.

I am lucky that my second son has a different cast of mind that gives us a different way of relating. But when I talk with girls my sons’ ages they are startlingly able to *talk* about things...it’s different. That said I am also amazed by how difficult they seem, so it’s not like the grass is greener.[/quote]

I have 2 of each.  I used to think "boys are x" or  "girls are X".   Now I see that I was wrong and although there are absolutely some truths to sterotypes about boys and girls, there is so much more to it.  Their personalities couldn't be more different and although I have a son obsessed with engines and vehicles (15), he is also extremely intuitive about people and psychology and we can have the most incredible discussions.  My 19 year old son is the one I have the most spiritual/deep discussions with, and he is as manly as they come.

Sometimes I think we don't allow them to develop their "other side", but if more people did, we would find that boys and men have many of the traits inside them that we typically attribute to girls and think that men don't have.   I tried hard to help them to just that,  and they are still both  so different due to inborn personality traits.

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