""One family I stayed with as a guest a while back - nothing drew the parents ire more than the boys criticizing their sisters activities/conversations or vice versa when the girls wanted to rough-house around. It was refreshing to see this purpose these parents had for raising their kids.""
I do not understant this statment.
Also, Tailors alter clothes.
It's just an example of the previous sentence - (...I admire parents that teach their boys to be boys, their girls to be girls, and to respect and appreciate the differences in the other.)