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There's been a lot posted about MS boy/girl behaviors but not much advice on how you might handle your daughter's concern that boys won't talk to or text her. While it's easy for adults to say, oh, it's so normal for boys this age not to want to talk to girls--or conversely, for us to say, boys (or girls) are so aggressive about texting etc.--that doesn't really help your daughter if she's feeling confused or concerned. She doesn't want to hear you, an adult, tell her that "Lots of parents tell me their MS boys just don't talk to or text girls, MS boys are [b]less mature socially[/b] than you girls are" and so on. It's true, but that doesn't make it a comfort to your kid.
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I don't know that it's even a question of social maturity. I have multiple boys, and even the most mature, thoughtful, social one wasn't that into texting as a means of communication. Nor is his father -- when I am texting my friends, he wants to know what I'm doing, because to him, if you want to interact with someone, you have a phone call or have them over. MAYBE you e-mail. But texting is for one-off questions.

Texting to chat is just not how either of them are wired. 
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