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The fact that you find those "boy traits" unflattering is why school is so hard on boys. Boys really need to do things like run around a lot more than girls do. They naturally swing sticks around too. There is nothing wrong with it. If you look at any playground you can see this. Sure there are girls who will also be running around, but for the most part, boys need WAY more exercise than girls do. They NEED it. If they are forced to sit still, then their inability to do that may be seen as "wild hellion" behavior but that is grossly unfair to them and just shows how little you understand boys. If you forced your DD to run around the same amount to make things even, instead of forcing boys to tone it down, it would be cruel.[/quote]

PP, do you think it's all nature (or God's design)? None of it has to do with society's expectations and the way we raise children? Because that's not what the science says.[/quote]

Males and females genetically different. That's a fact. We have different hormones/hormone levels. That's also a fact. How in the world could this NOT have any effect on how we behave? Of course it does.[/quote]

Um, the big difference in hormones and hormone levels happens in puberty, not at a year old or 2 years old or even 3 or 4 or 5 a

And even then, it doesn't have to have a huge impact on behavior outside of sexual impulses.  I mean, in the workplace, if a man hits another person, it's not like, "Oh, he's all boy!"  And it is in puberty, adolescence and adulthood when the hormonal differences are most pronounced.  But that doesn't justify or excuse aggressive behavior.  [/quote]

Pick up a copy of Why Gender Matters by Sax - eye opening and answers so many questions about how and why boy and girls are so very different.

There's also a good chapter on kids who don't tend to the norms.[/quote]

There isn't agreement in the field about what Sax argues or advocates.   He is well known for being an advocate of single-sex schools.  Not all researches agree with the conclusions he reaches and some believe that the differences are, as I stated, more pronounced in adolescent and adult brains than they are in the brains of small children.

Not to mention, some of his claims focus on research of TEENAGERS.[/quote]

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