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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a parent of a 4th grade DD who had been warned about how difficult tween and teen girls were and how mean they are to each other. I was always told that boys were straightforward and easy.

It’s been shocking to see girls rally together and be supportive and kind, and to see the cruel, aggressive and constant work boys exert to establish and maintain a pecking order and their place in it. (I just wrote basically the same thing on the special needs thread and it isn’t worth rephrasing) Girl moms talked for years about relational aggression, but now I think it’s who who are really pushing the boundaries of what that can look like.

We have multiple boys at our school leaving because they’ve basically been driven out by this alpha boy nonsense. [/quote]

Not against you. I have the same observations

But why do we not believe boys have an emotional life as well as girls?[/quote]

Because it's not fostered by their parents or society.  My boys have an emotional life, because I'm raising them that way.  I see other boys getting the message that aggression = good; empathy = weakness.  It's sad.[/quote]

Just because a boy uses anger as a masking emotion over other emotions doesn't mean he doesn't have an emotional life.

I'm female and do this, so I can attest to it. Literally talking about that in therapy the other day.[/quote]

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