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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is mostly a vent,  but WTF is up with boys these days.  We had a handful of our DS's friends over for his birthday and took them to an outing in public and they're borderline feral 😆. So much loud, running everywhere, talking over each other. Additionally,  half of them have speech issues,  struggle with reading (the activity involved minimal reading), or can't focus for more than minute at a time.

We've been doing similar things for his big sister,  but the way the group of kids behave (even at the same age) is sooooooo different. It just shocks me to observe and it doesn't seem like boys will ever catch to girls.

It's not like I'm a stranger to boys either. For one,  I'm a man but I don't recall my friends ever being this wild. Maybe we had a lot more unstructured free pay so maybe it's because we weren't as contained. I also coach a few different youth sports,  but those are environments where boys are expected to be loud and active.  I guess maby of them just don't know how turn it off these days[/quote]

I took a bunch of 1st grade girl scouts on an outing recently (with substantial adult backup, the issue was not being wildly outnumbered) and they wound each other up to the point of madness.  Screaming, running in circles, cartwheels and roundoffs and wrestling and breaking stuff.  And that was before they all got hungry and whiny because of it.

Kids in groups always amplify kid behavior.  You have to set some hard boundaries around safety and then accept the chaos.  There's nothing wrong with boys being loud and wild with their friends, as long as they're not bullying or being unkind.  Loud and wild is a sign of fun happening.[/quote]

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