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[NYer]

letting boys be boys

An excellent summary! It seems that over the past few decades, boys have been 'expected' to act like girls. When I attended elementary school, the boys settled arguments in the school yard. Now they are expected to sit quietly at their desks, like the girls. Kudos to a psychlogist who "gets it".

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[SteveMcKing]

Psychobabbling freak. Boys and girls are different. No sh--.

Maybe if he had a normal relationship with a woman, she'd tell him all about it.

[TASMANIANRED]

Duh,

Now they figure out that the educators pre 1960 had it right.

[A. Pole]

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[SWAMPSNIPER]

OHMYGOODNESS!
This is just so politically incorrect, it can't ever be the truth!
Testosterone, the "Great Right Wing Conspiracy!

[festus]

Boys and girls have marked physical ... differences

Thank heavens these experts went to school to learn this.

[dhs12345]

Good article.

"...the second- and third-graders were being educated by teachers who did not understand the differences in how boys and girls learn..."

My son is really good in math but has difficulty with creative writing.

Creating writing = expressing himself. Boys and Men have difficulty with this. I don't believe it is because of how we are/were raised either.

Men and women are wired differently -- for their specialized tasks in life. Women -- raising children and maintaining the family; men -- gathering food and resources for the family and defending the family.

There is nothing sexist about it -- it is simply the facts of life.

[TWohlford]

Perhaps now they'll leave the few remaining all-male colleges alone!

I think the list is down to Wabash, Hampden-Sydney and Morehouse.

When the subject comes up, the faculty are always behind the movement to co-ed. I hear that recruiting faculty to these institutions is hampered somewhat due to the liberal faculty biases against all-male eductation.

Conversely, the list of all-female institutions goes on and on, with enthusiastic support of the popular press and liberal faculty.

Tim Wohlford, BA,
Wabash College '84

[Malesherbes]

This just in! Psychologist/doctor reveals that boys and girls are different. We live in a wondrous age. Each day brings a new revelation from our scientists.

[samiam1972]

Althought this wasn't exactly news to me it was still interesting. It describes my son and daughter perfectly!!

[Tax-chick]

Researchers at Boston University noted that almost all drowning victims are male, for example.

I never thought of that.

[Our man in washington]

I am so lucky I went to grade school before they gave drugs for "Attention Deficit Disorder."

In Kindergarten, I spent half the day ignoring the teacher and looking at the clock. I was just fascinated by numbers and liked to think about them a lot. I also could barely hold a crayon and couldn't write letters with any legibility. My teacher got very concerned. Fortunately, they didn't prescribe drugs back then.

Anyway, I thought about numbers a lot. The next year when I was six, I walked into my father's office and said "Daddy, I discovered something. If you take the square of any number and add that number again and the next number , you get the square of the next number." (For you math geeks, that's (x+1)(squared)=x(squared)+2x+1, although I didn't know the algebra.)

My early achievements in math didn't lead to me becoming the next Einstein, but so what? I loved talking about math with my father, and I think calming drugs might have taken the edge on the part of my brain that let me think about numbers. It would have been a much less happy childhood had they drugged me.

Anyway, I eventually got to the point where I adapted enough to pay attention to teachers, and grew up to be a somewhat-absent minded guy with mediocre but legible handwriting who has made a reasonably good living in math-related areas. How would drugs at that age have let me or anyone around me lead a happier life?

[Enterprise]

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[SuziQ]

Our older two boys gradeuated from, and our younger son now attends an all boys high school. Some of their friends complained about there not being any girls, but our boys didn't care that much. What it did do was make them concentrate on their studies because they weren't distracted by girls.

There is an all girls school in the next town, but our daughter just wasn't interested. She never liked the girls in her class; didn't have anything in common with them. Also, this particular school is full of snobs; even the girls who attend it comment about it. So we homeschool our daughter, and she's enjoying classes at the Community college much more than she would have being cooped up all day with a bunch of snotty girls.

[etcetera]

I knew it wasn't me! It was my teacher's fault!

[TX Bluebonnet]

Big Ole Bookmark

[kitkat]

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[exDemMom]

I think that many of the characteristics this doctor is ascribing to gender-based differences are more properly attributed to personality types as defined by the Briggs-Meyer personality test. It is true that some personality traits manifest more often in one gender than the other--for instance, more women are touchy-feely types than men--but there is no trait that is strictly gender-specific.

I do not act very "female", and most of the traits this doctor attributes to boys would have described me pretty well when I was a kid.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Male and female differences are also evident in the way people navigate. Men are more likely to use abstract concepts such as north and south, and to refer to distances. Women, by contrast, prefer using visual landmarks. Neuroscientists have found, Sax noted, that even by the age of 5 the male brain uses a different part of the brain to navigate, the hippocampus, while the female brain relies on the cerebral cortex.

This is why you can't read a map, but you always know when we have passed someplace before.